Saep Wines is the Adelaide Hills-based project of longtime wine-grower Dave Gartelmann and there are a couple of things you need to know. He’s a great farmer that embraces all things organic and biodynamic and the wines have a superbly detailed natty, lo-fi edge and inherent drinkability that we love. He is deeply committed to the conversion of vineyards from conventional to organic viticulture and his passion for his home regions of Adelaide Hills and Mclaren Vale is palpable. Winemaking wise Dave has taken great influence from dear friend Abel Gibson who mentored him in the early years of Saep. His Syrah wines are full of drive and precision.
WINE
We are farmers. Our aim is to show you a wine built in the vineyard.
Light hands – minimal intervention, indigenous yeast, sometimes wholebunch, no fining or filtering, no or minimal sulfur, only using old french oak.
The vines have led the wines, the winemaking building on the individual characteristics of the block, variety and site (or an even smaller vineyard focus – just part rows with Sapere). We’d like to think through our wines, you can see the vines on the hill.