EKIN Wine Co

In ’21, after a particularly abundant vintage left more fruit on the vine than their customers were contracted for, viticulturists and growers Mark Vella and Brad Case got thinking about the ways they’d use the excess if they had their own wine label. So, in ’23, they launched the EKIN Wine Co. Henry Borchardt is on board as winemaker/operations manager, and the range is based mostly on fruit sourced from across the Adelaide Hills, although a single site in Langhorne Creek provides the grapes for their sparkling pinot noir. -ANNA WEBSTER