Bloomfield Gruner Veltliner 2025

Bloomfield is the exciting new project from Lauren Hansen, the winemaker from Penley Estate. This is called a side project, but it feels decidedly more serious than that. There’s a good dose of fun, experimentation and winemaking nous across this project. One to watch, and then some.

This is delicious. It ends up in that wonderful territory of ‘salty, textural white wines’ with its crunch of green pear, lively dose of brine and crushed granite minerality, shows off the pleasing bitterness of cumquat and preserved lemon, has some salt bush and alpine herb notes (if not a touch of white vermouth character pleasingly there). The texture has good grip and refreshment factor overall. It’s a winner of a drink, distinct, interesting, delicious. - winefront.com.au