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Bandicoot Run Wines

Al and Adriana, grower - makers on our farm in Baw Baw Shire, West Gippsland. Our wines are lo-fi and only add a small amount of sulfur prior to bottling.

We farm organically, with a focus on biodiversity and building healthy soil microbiology.

20/10/2026

Shoot thinning 🌱

This is one of the more important spring jobs for us. We’re determining the vines structure and balancing green growth to fruit production for the season ahead, one vine at a time

12/10/2026

Farm life — vol. 1.

A little of our life on the land here in Gippsland, Victoria.

10/10/2026

A rare day in the workshop 🔪

04/09/2026

We’ve wrapped up pruning just in the nick of time this year, woohoo! Onwards and upwards with the rest of the season. And that brings us back to the cellar. It’s been a little while between releases, so we’re pretty excited to finally share our 2024 Minetta Chardonnay & 2024 Reserve Pinot Noir.

2024 Minetta Chardonnay
We only make this w**e when everything lines up. In 2024, the fruit looked pristine and we had just enough grapes to make a single barrel (220 bottles produced). It’s the second iteration of this w**e, following the first in 2021, both were great vintages for us with really high quality fruit.

The grapes come from our older Minetta block, named after the salt of the earth vigneron who generously shared cuttings from her vineyard with us back in the early 2000s.

The fruit was chilled overnight, destemmed, then gently basket pressed to barrel where it underwent fermentation.

Nothing added. Nothing exaggerated. Just Chardonnay, faithfully reflecting the season and the place it came from.

2024 Reserve Pinot Noir
Stoked to have Pinot Noir back after a long hiatus! Made from our two favourite barrels of the season. One for its pretty, floral and lifted red fruit character, and the other provided intensity and a compelling gravelly, reductive mineral edge.

Made in a semi-carbonic method and basket pressed to seasoned barrels, where it rested for 10 months before being gravity racked and bottled.

A couple of pretty special bottles to welcome spring. Up on our web store. Trade inquiries w**[email protected] 🙏

15/05/2026

There’s really nothing better than getting the firewood sorted on lovely late autumn day 🌞

13/05/2026

Why there’s no such thing as a 5 minute job on a farm

12/05/2026

Finally got a few hours in the workshop after an extended hiatus!

09/03/2026

2026 harvest ✨ We’ve just finished picking our Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Viognier and Syrah and we’re taking the opportunity to have some fun and make something a little different this year.

We ended up cropping around 0.9 tonnes per hectare, with the vines closest to our tree rows doing best. The trees offered protection from the frost which we’re really thankful for… without them we’d likely have had no crop this year.

The vines are looking great and hopefully they can now concentrate on building some good carbon stores for next season so we can have another crack at this crazy thing called grape growing 🤞🏼

21/02/2026

A delightful start to the year. Fresh hay has been cut after a few years off and with some aeration the paddocks are looking better than ever. We’ve had some surprise baby twin lambs born and 18 mm of rain for February, hopefully more coming this week. It’s still really bloody dry though, which showed in our latest honest harvest. There simply aren’t enough flowers out there and the bees are eating their own honey, something they would normally only do in winter.

We’ve also had some pretty magnificent Sunday lunches. A big shout out to Spike at .7healesville and the one and only for the beautiful w**e list takeover we did on 8 February. Thanks so much to everyone who came along ❤️

Harvest has officially started. It looks like we’ll be making a few barrels of w**e this season from our vineyard, although with what little fruit we have the ducks and blackbirds have been helping themselves 😅. We’ll be supplementing with some negotiant w**es which we’re really excited about. Hopefully Floraison and Grillo if all goes to plan 🤞🏼. Al finished building our little w**ery room just in time for harvest stays and it also happens to be a lovely spot to sit with a home brew and look out over the vineyard.

To finish off summer, we’ve got two new w**es landing. The 2024 Ceramic Chardonnay is looking brighter than ever and the 2024 Pinot Noir Rosé which is just a single barrel, topped with Chardonnay post ferment for something different. Both are really expressive and bottled without sulfur.

Now up on the webstore. Trade, please reach out if you’re keen ✨

04/12/2025

Happy Friday friends!

We thought we’d give a little update on how things are going here since the frost on 28th October.

Unfortunately the damage is worse than first suspected and we’re looking down the barrel of around 70% crop loss, which isn’t great but at least vintage 2026 is still happening albeit in a smaller, more limited quantity.

So it’s more or less business as usual here, and the vineyard is starting to at least look a little better with the vines pushing out new green growth.

So, after sweltering through the last couple of days we thought it’s time to release our annual summer w**e pack! Offered with a nice discount to sweeten the deal, inside the pack you’ll find:

2023 Ceramic Chardonnay - zesty, zippy, salty, mineral goodness. If you’re planning on fish&chips on the beach this is whatchu want.

2024 Chardonnay - barrel fermented, more elegant and polished, a hint of toasted nuttiness and then stone fruit all the way home. Guaranteed to impress your mum at Xmas.

2024 Pinot Noir Rose - a single barrel of Pinot Noir rose, topped with Chardonnay after fermentation and bottled directly from barrel with no adds. Pur jus.

2024 Lucid Dreams - textural, carbonic, rosato style with amaro vibes and a lick of salt. Anytime, anyplace.

2023 Pinot Noir - Estate blend of 7 clones. Many ferments/ many layers. Looking gorgeous currently and as usual very almost sold out.

2023 Syrah (Viognier) - Medium bodied Syrah, very much made in the style of a Pinot Noir. Lifted fruit carried by an undertow of savoury spice. The “impress dad at Xmas” bottle.

Up on our webstore now (link in bio).

Adriana & Al

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Longwarry, VIC

Website

http://bandicootrun.com.au/

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