Why would you make an unfiltered white wine? So many people ask me with broad intrigue about my skin contact fermented, single vineyard unfiltered Mudgee Chardonnay. Dark, golden, cloudy, hazy… misty. Whatever you want to call it, it is visually challenging for some people. After 60 plus years of drinking white wines clarified and ‘star bright’, […]
Why blend Shiraz and Petit Verdot? When you first decide you want to make red wine, you can do the safe and usual thing and copy what other wine makers do. Perhaps you could make what is popular, what everyone is drinking right now. But I tend to think, if you are going to make […]
Hi. I’m Stuart Olsen, wine maker and owner of Eloquesta Wines, Mudgee and Orange, NSW I was drawn to wine making and had a passion for it from my university days. I believe in the diversity and potential of regional New South Wales, where I was born and have spent much of my life. The […]
