The Pedro Ximenez grapes are hand thinned at the green berry stage so that the vine can sun ripen its remaining grapes to very high sugar levels.

The hand picked grapes produces a preservative free dessert wine with no additives or preservatives. This luscious sweet natural dessert one of the top wines in Perth Western Australia Swan wine district.

Ripe Swan Valley PX is crushed, destemmed prior to being pumped to the ferment tank. The ferment starts with wild yeasts and continues at 30C until the ferment has proceeded through 6 Be'.

The skins are drained and basket pressed, the juice returned to an open fermenter under the verandah. The ferment continues at 30C until the carbon dioxide gas production slows.

Once the ferment is slow the wine is pumped to oak barriques with yeast lees for cellaring underground and maturation.

After two summers the wine is bottled and sealed with natural cork.

This wine has no preservative or alcohol added and is high in antioxidants. It is neither clarified or filtered. A unique and a true natural sweet wine. Consumed within one month after opening.

Alcohol - 11% pH 3.9, Residual Sugar - 11+ Beame  Total SO2, less than 10 ppm naturally formed

Western Australian Wine Writer - Ray Jordan - Great stuff! 90/100