Thistledown

At home in the Adelaide Hills, Thistledown makes super premium wines from the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Eden Valley and Langhorne Creek.
An Englishman living in Scotland, an Irishman living in England and a German descendant working in Adelaide makes for the beginnings of a joke, but the coming together of Giles, Fergal and Peter has formed the foundations of a producer with high ambitions. Drawing on these strongly Celtic links, the thistle is an apt image for a producer that, for its rugged exterior, makes wines that possess a delicacy, subtlety and beauty that constantly surprise. Thistledown works directly with growers in the premium regions of South Australia to source fruit that has the potential to communicate its origins precisely.