Small Batch Wine
Winemaker - Doug Woodward
Wedded to the Weather is my personal gateway to creativity, fun, learning, and delicious wine. There’s no compromise with my wines - I make them exactly as I want to because, at this stage of life, I can focus on the winemaking. No school runs required, no weekend sport, no pesky trips to the office - you get the idea.
It’s all about the wine.
@Wedded to the Weather
WILD FERMENTED ORGANICS
I use organically grown grapes from sustainable vineyards (with the occasional exception) and produce all my wine in very small batches. No individual batch is more than 500-600kgs. It is all super hands-on.
FUN, FRIENDS, JOY
I use wild ferments because I like the flavours and the unpredictability. Often I have two batches of the same grapes side by side in the winery, and they end up tasting quite different. WTTW are not filtered or fined as I like the flavours and texture that result. I press the caps on my ferments by hand so I can manage each individually to achieve the style, extract, colour and intensity I want for what I aim to make - Pet Nat or Orange or still.
I started making wine in the spare bedroom of my suburban home in 2018, and I couldn’t have done it without the valued assistance and support of willing family and friends, including mainstays Sue and Leo Thompson.
This year, 2023, I moved all my kit to the Barossa Valley to share a shed with three other like-minded winemakers. Just another step in the adventure. It has been a joy to work collaboratively in a wine-making environment, to observe, learn and become better. To make even better wine.
DELICIOUS
WTTW makes wine almost exclusively from Mediterranean varietals. Why? Because I believe these are wines of the future. As our weather changes and warms, I think grape varieties from hotter areas are better suited to our Australian climate. (And making wines that others don't make, is fun!)
GALLERY
STOCKISTS
Some of the places you can buy Wedded To The Weather
QUEENSLAND
CRAFT WINE STORE
Red Hill, Coorparoo and Indooroopilly
MY BEER DEALER
Caxton St, Hendra and Morningside
BLACK SHEEP
Newmarket and The Gap
NEW SOUTH WHALES
ANNANDALE CELLARS
Annandale
WINONA WINES
Manly
P&V WINE AND LIQUOR MERCHANTS
Newtown and Paddington
VICTORIA
CULT OF THE VINE
Brunswick
BLACKHEARTS AND SPARROWS
Abbostford, Brunswick, Fitzroy, Geelong, Richmond, East Brunswick, Fitzroy North, Melbourne Central and Victoria Gardens
MARKET WINE STORE
Maroochydore and Bokarina
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
LEIGH ST WINE BAR
Adelaide
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
MANE LIQUOR
Osrborne Park and Belmont
TASMANIA
BLACKHEARTS AND SPARROWS
North Hobart
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
BLACKHEARTS AND SPARROWS
Braddon