Tasting Notes for Spring Seed Sweet Pea Moscato from the Winery

With its delicate pale pink colour and subtle spritz, the ‘Sweet Pea Moscato’ shows hints of pink grapefruit, mandarin, rosewater and blood orange on the nose, leading onto to a fresh, balanced palate. Sweet Pea is so pretty (floral) on the nose, and savoury on the finish, with that sweet bit in the middle. It is versatile, too; a wine to go with brunch (smoked salmon and scrambled eggs), a cocktail base (mix with gin, soda, lime, ice and mint) or good with a strawberry based dessert. You try!

Vintage

2025 was an early season, with warm daily temperatures resulting in early bud burst (2 weeks ahead of the long-term average) and a short flowering period. Good conditions resulted in an even fruit set. The dry conditions throughout the season promoted healthy vine growth with minimal disease pressure. The warm, dry conditions resulted in an early start to vintage and small berries with remarkable concentration, making wines with excellent balance, flavour development and structure. Yields were generally down across most varieties as a result of vintage conditions. Vintage concluded by the end of March in time for everyone to enjoy Easter at home!

Winemaking

I believe that this wine is South Australia’s (if not Australia’s) only single vineyard, organically grown Moscato! It is made using ‘Red Fronti’, which is the McLaren Vale vernacular for Muscat à Petits Grains (red frontignac). This grape variety is common throughout central and eastern Europe, as well as here in Australia. Even though it is a red grape, it is used to make sweet or dry white wines. We use it to make our slightly sweet, gently ‘frizzante’ pink ‘Moscato’ wine. We pick the grapes and allow a couple of hours of skin contact before pressing off and fermenting, which lets us get the gentle pink colour. We stop fermentation when the wine is about 7% alcohol.

Spring Seed Wine Co

Spring Seed Wines are made from grapes lovingly grown in our family’s organic vineyard, located in the premium wine region of McLaren Vale, South Australia. The vineyard was established in the early 1970’s by Peter and Anthea Bosworth, and is now owned and run by their son Joch, who began the conversion to organic viticulture in 1995. The vines are fully certified ‘A’ grade organic by Australian Certified Organic, a process that takes four years and involves yearly audits and random sampling of produce. The Spring Seed Wine labels are unashamedly inspired by vintage flower seed packets created at the turn of the last century. The colour, clarity and beauty of the original seed packets are quite remarkable. We have chosen the Sweet Pea image for our Moscato.

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