Posts Tagged ‘nero d’avola’
Levi Dalton interviews Brash on “I’ll Drink to That!” Ep. 335
Episode 335 of I’ll Drink to That! was released recently. It features Brad Hickey, who is the winemaker of the Brash Higgins winery in the McLaren Vale of Australia. >Full interview here or Stitcher Some words on the interview by Alder Yarrow: “This is an interview in two parts, really. In the first half of…
Read MoreNDV Wins ‘Rule Breaker’ Award
Brash Higgins Nero d’Avola won the prestigious “Rule Breaker” award at the SA Hot 100 wine show last week in Adelaide. The grapes, grown on our estate vineyard, spend 180 days on skins in locally made amphora. Bright and jubilant, it’s a great example of the new wine style that’s sweeping the nation. Here’s the…
Read MoreFood & Wine Magazine profiles Brash
Brash Higgins’ winemaker and vinitor, Brad Hickey, was profiled in America’s Food & Wine Magazine recently by Christina Pickard. Here’s what she had to say: American Winemakers Down Under “Raising Expectations in McLaren Vale” “McLaren Vale has long struggled to shake its reputation as a bulk wine region. It’s the last place you’d expect to find pithy, ginger-and-lemon tea…
Read MoreAmphabulous Nero d’Avola
Brash Higgins ‘NDV’ nero d’Avola 2015 is fermenting away in its amphora homes. Looks to be an out of sight vintage, albeit with low yields and early harvest.
Read MoreThe Nero Inside
As Winter winds down, it’s time to wake the hibernating nero d’avola occupying our amphora. Sucking out the dark nero juice is just the first step, it smells amazing. The sucking is followed by pressing all the skins left behind. It is truly fun for the whole family and occupies two full days. After which…
Read MoreWinter Works in Progress
Brash Higgins has been busy this Winter tending to the wines from 2014; topping and nurturing them. Here’s a rare glimpse inside the BH micro winery. We’re getting ready to bottle our 2013 SHZ and CBSV after a great day of racking the wines off their gross lees. The 21 amphora are sleeping; winter hibernation…
Read MoreWhen Ancient Arts Collide
Two of the oldest arts known to man, winemaking and pottery, intersect with the Brash Higgins Amphora Project. Watch Adelaide potter John Bennett’s hands as he smooths the final ropes of clay to an amphora destined to house one of the BH amphora wines. Visit the potter at www.bennettsmagillpottery.com.au
Read MoreLola’s Pergola
Adelaide Festival is here and Brash Higgins is honoured to be one of the featured small wineries on showcase as part of the three week picnic along the Torrens River that is “Lola’s Pergola”. A collaboration of creatives, join chef Duncan Welgemoed, super caterers the Happy Motel, creative director Ross Ganf and many more. “Lola’s”…
Read MoreWaxing the Amphorae
Leading up to vintage is always time to perform routine and, in this case, not so normal maintenance to get things ready for vintage. This week Brash was busy in our warm shed lining the bottoms of our amphora with molten bees wax to protect them from moisture. Bring on V2014. BH
Read More"Slow Magazine" Catches Up
The beautiful quarterly, Slow Magazine, which espouses that good things in life take time, exploring all things “mindful”, reviewed our NDV in their current Spring issue #16. Thanks to Alex McPherson for the kind, well-written words. This is one wine that isn’t rushed. www.slowmagazine.com.au/current-issue
Read MoreWarming Winter Bones
It’s always sweet relief when I get the nero d’Avola we make at Brash Higgins out of the clay pots and into a settling tank. Until this happens, everything is a little tense around HQ. This condition was heightened even more in 2013, since we had the wine stored in our carport. Nobody likes the…
Read MoreVintage 2011 and Getting the Nero Over the Line
The storm clouds they gathered and as a grape grower, it was white knuckle time again for Brash Higgins Wine Co. So much of the harvest is out of the grower’s control; the weather, disease, insects and birds clearly have a mind of their own. On the heels of a healthy, dry 2010 harvest, disease…
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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