Baby Bandito "Stay Brave" 2022

Hand harvested & 100% destemmed into 1500L fermenters. Fermented on the skins for 8 days and pressed off into 1 x 3300L old oak foudre and 1 x 1500L barrels. After 4 months the wine was blended & aged in a 10,000L fibreglass tank. No yeast (or other) inoculation or additives apart from a small amount of SO2 shortly before bottling. Ambient fermentation. 100% malolactic fermentation. A clarifying filtration was done, not fined.

Baby Bandito is a project that started in 2015. Craig & Carla wanted to work with vineyards that deliver wines that can be drunk young yet still “over deliver". The labels are heavily influenced by street artists. The names of the wines come from expressions that are used as if giving encouragement to a child. Stay Brave is the “Baby” skin contact Chenin.