2024 Shy Susan Nebbiolo Rosé

**New Shy Susan Wines and new vintages released with the next Shy Susan Wine Club annually in September (ONE 6 pack per year)!

“Shy Susan (Tetratheca gunnii) is a critically endangered Australian wildflower. Her survival depends completely on a little native bee, who alone is capable of pollination. Their fate is forever entwined”.

After working with Tasmanian fruit for nearly two decades Glenn James with his wife, Jo Marsh began crafting wines under their newly created Shy Susan label in 2015. The couple lived in Porepunkah in the Alpine Valleys region and Glenn commuted to Tasmania weekly for his role as Chief Winemaker at Winemaking Tasmania. When Jo fell pregnant in late 2019 Glenn made the decision to leave his role and work fulltime with Jo in the Alpine Valleys. Having many years to experience the quality of fruit the Alpine Valleys had to offer they decided to continue the Shy Susan brand with local fruit. Select small parcels of fruit are crafted to reflect variety, vineyard and the stylistic approach forged from Glenn’s skill and experience.

The term saignèe comes from the French verb “to bleed”.  The saignèe method involves bleeding / draining off a proportion a juice from crushed red grapes in a fermenter.  This method has a two-fold effect.  It increases the skin to juice ratio and concentrates the resulting red wine and the juice that has been removed is then fermented separately to produce a rose wine.

Production Notes

Grapes were crushed, and the juice was left in contract with the skins overnight before a small portion of the juice was bled off for this wine.  Once in tank the juice was cold settled and racked off juice solids to seasoned oak where it was inoculated with selected yeast to complete fermentation.  Once complete a period maturation on the yeast lees in old oak allowed the wine to further develop texture. 

Tasting Note

A lovely, delicate salmon colour, this wine has a distinct savoury profile. Aromas of preserved watermelon rind lead into a bone-dry palate with a touch of Nebbiolo-like texture. Bright phenolic grip carries flavours of fresh rhubarb and a pleasantly bitter blood orange twist. Refreshing and cleansing, with distinctly Campari-aperitif vibes.

Optimal Drink Window – now to 2027. 

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Reviews

"What I really love about this brilliant rosé is that it has both fruit and texture but it’s also in touch with its savoury side, and in that vein it finishes with beautiful, stony length. This is the perfect pale and dry rosé. It tastes of herbs, strawberries, stones, crushed fennel and orange rind, and everything that it builds it then carries on through the finish. You get flavour, you get style and in the end you get a wine that is memorable." 94 points. Campbell Mattinson 25 September 2025

"A serious rosé at a serious price, released with a little bottle age and burgeoning complexity. Bright salmon tea rose hues entice. Delicate rose petal, wild strawberry, red cherry and light spice reveal the aromatic, summery side of nebbiolo, entwined in layers of gentle savouriness, nicely grippy phenolics and bright acidity. Texturally, it shines." Awarded 93 points, Halliday Wine Companion, Jeni Port - Published 20 August 2025