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Vintage: 2019

Barossa Valley, SA

ALC: 14.5% 

The guys at Auld Family Wines have done it again with this cracker! Not only is this a great wine but every bottle supports those with Tach-Sachs. Just like the beautiful Freya who was the inspiration behind the creation. 

In August 2023, the Maclays received the most devastating news any parent can get.

Their beautiful baby, Freya, was diagnosed with Tay Sachs. Tay-Sachs disease is an extremely rare genetic disorder passed from parents to child. It affects 1 in 360,000. It's caused by the absence of an enzyme that helps break down fatty substances. These fatty substances, build up to toxic levels in the brain and spinal cord and affect the function of the nerve cells. Over time, this leads to seizures, vision and hearing loss, paralysis and other major issues. Children with this form of Tay-Sachs disease typically live only a few years. Currently, there is no cure and Freya is the first ever case in Hong Kong.

With this wine and other events in Hong Kong, the Maclays aim to raise much needed awareness of the disease, critical funds for the charities that help those affected by the disease and continue to allow Freya to live life to the full just like any other toddler.

When it comes to wine families, Sam and Jock Auld are the real deal. It’d be hard not to become a vino obsessive when your Barossa Valley upbringing meant dried grape seeds cushioning falls from the monkey bars and early morning pruning as teens. But given their pioneering great-grandfather planted some of SA’s very first vines, it was written. If the Auld family name had been used consistently for the last six generations, it might be as renowned as Penfolds. But as one of the ‘in crowd’, we’re kind of pleased it isn’t.