Noon Winery

My name is Drew Noon. My wife Raegan and I independently own and run our small vineyard and winery in McLaren Vale, South Australia. I grew up on this property and my father David established our family wine business in 1976. The winemaking duties have been under my guidance from the vintage of 1996. We only make red wines. We have always produced full bodied styles that are made by hand (Noon family hands) and that is still the case today. We...

We manage our estate vineyards by hand, with as few sprays as possible. The vines are picked and pruned by hand; just copper and sulphur are used if required for fungal disease control, and soil tillage is kept to a minimum.

As a consequence you may notice, if you visit the winery, that the surrounding old vines look a little wild, but proud! There are no trellis wires or irrigation pipes. There is some grass on the vineyard floor and the v...

No single aspect of serving wine makes or mars it so easily as getting the temperature right.” So says Hugh Johnson in his Pocket Wine Book and I couldn’t agree more. But how good are we at getting it right?

The temperature of white wines is routinely adjusted before we serve them, without even giving it conscious thought. It’s a matter of habit to put our white wines in the fridge ahead of time and an embarrassment to serve them too warm (...

Soils and wine - a mysterious relationship!

We can easily see that the flavour of wine is influenced by the terroir in which it is grown. For example Riesling from Germany tastes very different from Riesling grown in the Clare Valley. The topography of the landscape, the weather, the soil, the vineyard management, local cultures and traditions all have the ability to influence how foods and wines from different places taste. But as we refin...