Save our Souls Skin on Skin Chardonnay 2018

We might need to save ourselves from Save Our Souls...A Pinot Noir from where the wild things grow. This is svelte and earnest, but deep and brooding, staying in a playful light frame but only fleetingly, moving from the very cranberry and sweet into damson plums, mushrooms, and savory earth. This is the kind of dance a minimal intervention Pinot does when it's in good hands. Ripe fruits, yet low alcohol, which is entirely a vineyard character from an organically farmed 'Syme' - lots of lengths. Very wild, very cool.You might have heard of Bill Downie, who shot to 'wine-cool' fame with his ethereal take on Pinot Noir, expressing regions throughout Victoria. Before his own Pinot became so highly sought after, he was promoted purely on his philosophical take and love for Pinot, obsessing himself tasting the great wines of Burgundy. Bill's calling has always been wine, which he simply couldn't shake, and so 'Save Our Souls' is just one of many projects he works on. Along with mate Jason S