SPICY, FLORAL, JUICY.
WHY WE LOVE IT:
Medium bodied, fleshy & velvety. Delicious supple tannins and a spicy, floral, blue fruited, generous palate.
“After growing up in the Limestone Coast, coming back to work here was not part of the plan,” Lauren Hansen says. “As a teenager I couldn’t wait to get out of here and move to the city – like many country kids, I imagine!” Her desire to get out of dodge landed her in a viticulture and oenology degree, which she duxed, and then on to vintages at Brokenwood (Hunter Valley), Bannockburn (Geelong), Maddens Rise (Yarra Valley), Adelina (Clare Valley), and international experience in Austria, New Zealand, and Bordeaux in France.
“Bloomfield started from a desire to do things my own way: to push boundaries, experiment, and never stop learning,” Hansen says. “It’s my creative playground, where no one can say no to that crazy idea, the new variety, or the technique I want to trial.”
Perhaps appropriately for someone who jumped ship from the more traditionally styled Balnaves to help Kate Goodman shake things up at the formerly staid Penley, Bloomfield is all about Hansen getting herself out of her comfort zone, starting with grape varieties. “I could have made a traditional variety from an epic site many times over – but I really wanted to get a chance to play around with grape varieties I wasn’t already working with.”
SPICY, FLORAL, JUICY.
WHY WE LOVE IT:
Medium bodied, fleshy & velvety. Delicious supple tannins and a spicy, floral, blue fruited, generous palate.
“After growing up in the Limestone Coast, coming back to work here was not part of the plan,” Lauren Hansen says. “As a teenager I couldn’t wait to get out of here and move to the city – like many country kids, I imagine!” Her desire to get out of dodge landed her in a viticulture and oenology degree, which she duxed, and then on to vintages at Brokenwood (Hunter Valley), Bannockburn (Geelong), Maddens Rise (Yarra Valley), Adelina (Clare Valley), and international experience in Austria, New Zealand, and Bordeaux in France.
“Bloomfield started from a desire to do things my own way: to push boundaries, experiment, and never stop learning,” Hansen says. “It’s my creative playground, where no one can say no to that crazy idea, the new variety, or the technique I want to trial.”
Perhaps appropriately for someone who jumped ship from the more traditionally styled Balnaves to help Kate Goodman shake things up at the formerly staid Penley, Bloomfield is all about Hansen getting herself out of her comfort zone, starting with grape varieties. “I could have made a traditional variety from an epic site many times over – but I really wanted to get a chance to play around with grape varieties I wasn’t already working with.”
VARIETAL: MENCIA
REGION: LIMESTONE COAST, SA
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
FORMAT: 750ML
ABV: 13.5%
VINTAGE: 2024
