Commune of Buttons, Syrah Grenache 'Sable' Blewitt Springs 2023

Producer: Commune of ButtonsRegion: McLaren Vale, South AustraliaVarietals: 60% Syrah, 40% GrenacheViticulture: OrganicCategory: Red WineSize: 750ml Jasper Button, a second generation winegrowers from South Australia’s Basket Range, never really intended to make wine himself. A chef by training, he spent much of his life cooking throughout Europe and surfing, but found himself home among his family’s organically grown vines in 2013. There, a meeting with Anton van Klopper of Lucy Margaux who came to purchase some fruit gave Jasper and his sister Sophie the idea of taking a crack at making wine. Jasper partnered with van Klopper at the seminal restaurant the Summertown Aristologist and joined a loose affiliation of South Australian natural wine makers, including Jauma and Ochota Bottles. “We were playing around with grapes,” Jasper says. “I didn’t really know what to expect. We had 20-year-old vines, and I wanted to find success with those vines. I wanted to make something out of the pr