AMPHORA PROJECT
Dawning Of An Ancient Era
Max Allen’s timely piece on Aussie AMPHORA reared wines, including Brash Higgins‘ 2011 “NDV” nero d’Avola and winemaker, Brad Hickey, in the Nov. issue of Gourmet Traveller. The 2012 “NDV” will be released in early 2013. Excerpt: “I love fermenting in amphorae”, says Brad Hickey. “Each one is only 200 litres and I fill it…
Read MoreMaking of the Brash Higgins “Amphora Project” NDV
In 2009 Brash Higgins obtained some of the first cuttings of the Sicilian red wine grape, Nero d’Avola, available in Australia thanks to the work of Bruce Chalmers. Nero is drought and heat tolerant, ripens late and thrives in its native Mediterranean climate, so it seemed like a good fit for coastal McLaren Vale and our ever…
Read MoreNew Amphora
by Brash Higgins We’ve been preparing our vineyard to harvest our very first crop of the red wine grape Nero d’Avola. Indigenous to Sicily, where it is well suited for a hot, dry climate like our own in McLaren Vale, we grafted the Nero vines over to a shiraz block in 2009. Nero is capable…
Read MoreThe Nero d’Avola Chronicles
We’ve been preparing our vineyard to harvest our very first crop of the red wine grape Nero d’Avola. It’s a new variety to Australia and I’m going to put it under a new label I’ve been working on, which shall remain a secret for a little while longer. As a relative newcomer to this district,…
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