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Description
L.A.S. Vino is the brainchild of Nic Peterkin, one of Margaret River's most original, iconoclastic producers.
This three-pack gives you a taste test of some of Nic's more creative creations. These are delicious wines, all handmade by one of this generation's most interesting wine minds.
- 2024 L.A.S. Vino CBDB Chenin Blanc
- 2024 L.A.S. Vino Albino Pinot
- 2022 L.A.S. Vino Pirate Blend
2024 L.A.S. Vino CBDB Chenin Blanc
CBDB stands for Chenin Blanc Dynamic Blend, though these days it’s 100% Chenin from start to finish. The name’s a nod to the vineyard - a certified biodynamic site up in Yallingup that’s more paddock than picture-perfect row. There’s no trellising, no sprays, and no real control. It’s all native flora, roaming farm animals, and vines doing their thing. Nic Peterkin’s been working with this site for years now, and it shows.
The fruit gets picked by hand, chilled overnight, and pressed gently as whole bunches. Wild yeast kicks off fermentation, which takes place in a mix of old barriques and amphora. There's no malo here, but the wine stays on lees for about 10 months, stirred every now and then to build a bit of texture. Bottled without fining and just a light filter.
It’s a wine that walks its own path - plenty of flavour, plenty of energy, and just the right amount of grip.
2024 L.A.S. Vino Albino Pinot
This one’s not your usual anything. Sort of a white wine, sort of a rose, and drinks like a lightly textural Chardonnay. It’s 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay from a tiny, old vineyard down in Wilyabrup - one of the last sites in the region still growing Pinot. Planted back in 1980, this one-hectare block hugs the Willyabrup Brook and cops plenty of that coastal breeze off the Indian Ocean.
Nic treats the fruit gently - hand picked, whole-bunch pressed, and then fermented naturally in a mix of barriques and clay amphora. Everything’s kept separate until the final blend, with regular lees stirring throughout to build texture. No fining, just a light filter before bottling.
It’s kind of strawberries-and-cream meets sea spray and stone fruit, but that undersells how smart and drinkable it actually is. One of the country's premier Roses.
2022 L.A.S. Vino Pirate Blend
The Pirate Blend. Now this is a wine with a lot of personality and something very different from your average Margaret River blend.
It is comprised of three Portuguese native varieties inspired by Nic's time making wines in Portugal: Touriga Nacional, Tinta Cao and Sousao, all three of these characters offer something a little different to the party.
The bottle looks like it has just been brought up from below deck and the wine itself feels raw and untamed, but underneath it all is some serious winemaking and a clear vision which has been realised brilliantly by Peterkin.
Want to see what is on the cutting edge of Margaret River? The Pirate Blend is it!
94 Points
"The combo of touriga nacional 65%, tinta cao 32% and the 3% splash of souzao makes for an approachable and excellent red for pirates or anyone else for that matter. These varieties are rare in Margaret River, yet Nic Peterkin sources them off a 40-year-old site in Yallingup. It’s such a good wine, unpretentious, a little earthy, a little rustic, with lots of dark fruit, cocoa, currants, sumac and fresh herbs in the mix. Full bodied and juicy, with grainy, pomace-like tannins plus bright acidity, which means this needs hearty fare as a friend."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)
93 Points
"A slurpy, rollicking ride of red berries, mulberry compote, dark chocolate, panforte, dried herbs, ground mixed nuts and toasty spice elements. Go forth! Has a touch of that sense of liquified Xmas pudding, though not with the ribald sweetness, here decidedly dry, somewhat chewy, still quite plush and rich, but with train tracks of tannin tightening screws. Feels good to drink."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
Customer Reviews
| Price Bracket | $51 to $100 |
| Country | Australia |
| Region | Margaret River |
| Australian State | WA |
| Feature |
Cult High Score |
| Size | 750ml |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Closure | DIAM Cork |
L.A.S. Vino
Winemaker Nic Peterkin horsing around L.A.S. Vino
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