Two Shepherds Wine
Native yeast, neutral barrels, no fining and no filtering, and two things in the bottle: organic grapes and a little sulfur. Open Friday and Saturday, noon to five.1
Why go
Every line of the method changes the glass. Neutral barrels put no vanilla or toast into the wine. Native yeast means the ferment runs on whatever came in on the fruit. Skipping the fining and the filter leaves texture and a little haze where a filtered wine would be scrubbed clean.1 The fruit is handpicked off organic vineyards, and the stated ingredient list is two items long.1 The winery's own summary of all this is We make wines we want to drink. It's a hobby run amok.
1 Which uncommon varieties, the page does not say.
Order this / avoid
- Avoid: driving out midweek. Friday and Saturday, noon to five, and that is the whole window.1
Good to know
- No fee is published, so ask when you book.1
- St Florian's Brewery is a minute up Bell Road at number 7704, if you want to make the trip pay twice.
- No critic in the record has tasted these, so the method is on the page and the result is yours to judge.
Verdict
could-visit — The method is the argument and it is stated in five lines with nothing hedged: uncommon varieties, native yeast, neutral barrels, no fining, no filtering, and two ingredients in the bottle. Neutral wood puts no vanilla in, wild ferment gives you the vineyard's own population, and skipping the filter leaves texture behind, so that list describes an actual glass rather than a mood. The winery calls itself a hobby run amok. The rung is could-visit because it is the only witness, because the page names not one of those uncommon varieties, and because the door opens two days a week for five hours.