Fin Wines Speedo Gris 2024 – Yarra Valley, VIC
- Wine Scoffer
- 8 hours ago
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Fin Wines have long danced along the edge of the traditional winemaking scene like a first time concert goer finding themselves in a restricted area. The team of JonJo McEvoy, Oliver Johns, and Angus Hean produce young, fresh and most importantly wildly pleasurable drinks with an emphasis on drinkability. Fin is a fermentation collective making juicy, crunchy, low intervention wines and ciders that don’t take themselves too seriously.
Their 2024 Speedo Gris takes Pinot Gris by the hand, walks it into a lo-fi fermentation room and tells it to strip down and get dirty. Skin contact? Yes. Funk? Absolutely. A label that looks like a pool party got printed on an old photocopier? Of course.
Using fruit from Sarah Gough of Box Grove Vineyard in Nagambie Lakes in the Goulburn Valley region of central Victoria, which is destemmed for a little time on skins, this is a tiny batch of carbonic chaos bottled before it has time to run too wild. The wine is pressed and put to rest in an even split between old oak and stainless steel. What you get is a hazy, salmon tinted wine seemingly relaxed, cocky cool and with just enough acid to keep the chaos in check. The nose is apricot skins, pear, quince and somehow hibiscus tea and chinotto. On the palate, it’s fruit salad meets funk, slightly grippy thanks to the skin contact, deeply textural and wildly drinkable in a dangerously fast way. Juicy strawberries and mandarins finish with floral notes and a chalky texture.
Speedo Gris is not for the faint of heart or the clean shirted. It’s for picnics that go all day and post dinner kitchen discos. It’s also for wine nerds who’ve stopped pretending they like clarity more than character. Keep it delicately chilled but never too frosty lest you kill the funly mood. Savour it swiftly and meet its gaze only if you’re truly ready to indulge.
RRP $32
VIC |2024 | Yarra Valley | 11.7%
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