Tasting Notes
All of the Ochota Barrels wines carry interesting and quirky names. The Green Room refers to the backstage room where performers ready themselves for the big performance in front of an audience. With Grenache sourced from the same vines planted in 1946, this whole bunch fermented Grenache Syrah is bright red/pink in the glass with a hugely perfumed nose. It's supple, textured and ripe on the palate with bounds of cheery cherry. This is a 'drink now with good company' kind of wine. - Chris L
The ochota barrels tale began on a surf trip, late 2000 along the Mexican west coast in a Volkswagen campervan. A final destination after traveling some of the world's most amazing wine and surf regions, Taras and Amber Ochota conceived the idea to make beautiful holistic wines back home in South Australia. After a mis-spent youth playing a rickenbakker bass in various punk bands, Taras became an Oenology graduate from Adelaide University, developing his craft in numerous vineyards and cellars around the world to then settle with Amber on 9.6 steep gorgeous acres tucked away, deep in the Basket Range of the beautiful Adelaide Hills. Before this Taras worked as the European Flying Winemaker Consultant, concentrating on the Italian regions, Puglia, Abruzzo Sicily and further, for the Swedish wine importing company Oenoforos. California was also a regular vintage destination, making wines with producers such as Kunin, Bonnacorsi, Arcadian, Schrader, Outpost and the famous Hitching Post's label, Hartley-Ostini, from the movie 'Sideways'. Amber's wine experience ranges from vintages in Italy, vineyard development and cellar door sales in the Adelaide Hills and coordinating production and wine analysis for Nordic Sea Winery in southern Sweden. - Winery Note
Product Type | Wine Red Grenache & Friends |
Volume | 750ml |
Country | Australia |
Region | South Australia |
Sub Region | McLaren Vale |
Winemaking Practices | Minimal Intervention |
Vineyard Practices | Minimal Intervention |