Your official wine certification sheet arrived, and you survived the chemistry jargon. You already know your Total Acidity from your Residual Sugar. But there is one number on that sheet that still makes people a little nervous: Total SO₂. Let’s talk about sulphites.

When you look at an official wine certification sheet, it looks less like a romance novel and more like a high school chemistry test.  And I am hopeless at the latter! When our 2024 Pinot Noir came back approved from the Wine Certification Authority, it was accompanied by a string of numbers: Alcohol 12.1%, pH 3.60, Residual Sugar 1.8 g/l, Total Acid 5.4 g/l, and Total SO₂ 94 mg/l. But what do these digits actually mean when the cork pops and the wine hits your tongue?

Pinot Noir is renowned for its ability to pair magnificently with a wide variety of food styles, it creates a harmonious balance between the meal and the wine. Its unique interplay of sweet, salty, acidic, and umami flavours transforms an ordinary dish into a culinary celebration.

No bottle opener? No problem! Did you know: If you have forgotten your corkscrew and no one else has bothered to bring one along, there are some very innovative ways of opening a bottle of wine