Paralian
Paralian is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery — Campbell Mattinson's highest honour.
Adelaide Hills/McLaren Vale..
Production volumes are small; quality is exquisite. Paralian is the kind of endeavour that could never happen by accident; it’s a case of intricate knowledge, or bust.
The case.
The key to Paralian is as simple as it is magnificent. Skye Salter and Charlie Seppelt have worked in vineyards and at wineries far and wide, big and small, in Australia and around the world. In the vastness of this experience they’ve honed to a knife edge the ability to know a special vineyard when they see it, or a special block, or a special section of a vineyard, or even a special row. With Paralian then they set out to negotiate access to these special vineyards or to small sections of them, and to capture them in the bottle. Oftentimes these small sections of vineyard had never previously been singled out or bottled with their uniqueness kept intact. At Paralian the best grapes – the best combinations of land and grape – are seen. It’s not rocket science. But it takes skill, judgement and nerve to pull it off. Paralian does so unerringly.
The wines that carry the case.
Paralian Marmont Vineyard Grenache 2024 (McLaren Vale): It offers ample raspberried, boysenberried, strawberried fruit, throws floral and sweet spice characters into the fray, and then draws all these elements long through the finish via exquisite, earthen, assertive chains of tannin.
Paralian Marmont Vineyard Grenache 2025 (McLaren Vale): I'm not one for splurging on an expensive meal; but this wine makes me want to splurge on an expensive meal.
Paralian Chardonnay 2024 (Adelaide Hills): It was grown on the Bowyer Ridge vineyard in the Adelaide Hills, and while it’s flavoursome, fresh and complex, the soaring sling of the finish really sets it apart.
Paralian is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery – the highest honour awarded by Australian wine critic Campbell Mattinson. 10-Star status recognises one thing: the quality of the wine in the glass, every glass, across the range. The full list of 10-Star Wineries constitutes Australia's Best Wineries.
