Early dry vintage with light crops due to poor set in 2002. Wines had a lot of water stress and ripened early due to light crops. Wines are solid but more earthy and complex flavours, rather than fruity. No Balnaves reds released.

Coonawarra & Penola Heritage: William Wilson
With today being William Wilson’s 210th birthday, Doug Balnaves has written a special article on one of the unsung heroes of Australian wine as part of Doug’s historical reflections and research of the Coonawarra/Penola area.
