PachaMama Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2023

Semi translucent red to dark red colour with black toned edges and a light red hue. Aromas of violets, red to dark cherries, forest floor and fresh herbs escape from the glass with some spicy cedar notes also evident. Delicious spicy red to dark cherry, strawberry and rhubarb flavours show terrific drive across the palate. Notions of forest floor, subtle dried herbs and cedar are interwoven through the back half. Finely grained tannins finishing long, spicy and savoury.
 

In 2010, at sunrise, Callie and her dad and stood overlooking Machu Picchu, an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains of Peru.

While their guide shared stories about PachaMama - an ancient Inca fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting (you may know her as Mother Nature) - the fog lifted, slowly exposing the transcendent ruins hiding below.

They were told about the ongoing Andean tradition of giving a toast in honour of PachaMama and in some regions, a special kind of libation (known as a challa) is performed where a small amount of wine is spilled onto the ground to express deep gratitude to their earth mother and to give back to the earth.

This trip inspired the beginnings of PachaMama. 12 years later and although the reins have been passed down from father to daughter, PachaMama still stands by the same core values they wrote down when they started: empowerment, sustainability, innovation and community.