Felix Caspar Wines!

Felix Caspar Wines!

Felix Caspar. Sounds like one bloke, but it’s actually two – and they’re brothers! named Ruben and Phil! (Felix and Caspar are their middle names, by the way.) Since 2017, these fellas have been flipping the script in Margaret River, combining backgrounds in radio, graphic design, viticulture and oenology along with some winemaking in China’s Yunnan Province, of all places.

Bordeaux varieties are the siblings’ bread and butter, but they’re unlike the buttoned-up stuff that Margs is known for. Their 2022 Murray Cabernet Sauvignon is of the slurpier and more sessionable style, supple with purple and black fruit and whispers of cacao, anise and game. The 2022 Morris Malbec sits in a similar frame, albeit with more choc-mint and briny olive-like detail etched in. Both are true beauties and deliver on the “I want to drink natural wine at Christmas but don’t want to piss off Dad and Uncle Phil” brief.

As for lighter things, there’s salted lemon and green apple crunch galore in the 2022 Ida Chenin Blanc and a frisky, whole-bunchy edge to the 2023 Roro Merlot Rosé. Should you prefer a bit of fizz, merlot also forms the base of the taut, rosy 2023 Bobbles Pet Nat –energetic as hell, rocking mineral zing for days.

They’ve also teamed up with Perth brewer Nick Galton-Fenzi to release the 2023 X3 Italian Grape Ale – a wine beer comprising direct-pressed merlot co-fermented with malted barley. Plummy, yeasty, wheat-y and lightly honey-scented goodness. Did somebody say, “Cleansing ale?"
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