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Alpha Box and Dice

Alpha Box and Dice

Alpha Box and Dice
8 Olivers Rd
Mclaren Vale
Australia 5171
Phone: (08) 8323 7750
https://www.alphaboxdice.com

Contact: Dylan Fairweather
Email: [email protected]

Our Vision

Wines without boundaries – regional, varietal or stylistic. Wines whose entire raison d’être is to be delicious and to express the minutia and complexity of site and vintage conditions. Wines that enchant; wines that delight you and leave you betwixt the rock and a ripe grape. Through a series of random experiments in the field and adventures in vinous bricolage, these are our modest goals.

Our Legacy

After years travelling the world learning different styles and techniques of winemaking across Australia, Italy, France and Moldova, AB&D’s founding winemaker Justin Lane returned to McLaren Vale with a unique and enterprising premise – creating an ‘Alphabet of Wine’.

Forming Alpha Box & Dice as a laboratory for viticultural exploration in 2008, the team set upon constructing a different wine style to represent every letter of the alphabet. Each wine is created holistically and has its own unique personality, focussing on the fruit’s intellectual property through small batch quantities, rather than hi-tech technology or whiz-bang gadgetry. AB&D wines are all linked by their environment and surroundings, but are completely distinct in their flavour, appearance and orientation. In this way, AB&D wines are just like a (mostly) happy family.

Our Future

AB&D continue to tick off letters with new blends, while evolving the existing collections of wines. With a culture soaked in community, quality and a laissez-faire spirit, Alpha Box & Dice will continue to inspire, delight and surprise in everything they do.

And they do a lot.

Winemaker: Justin Lane

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Alpha Box and Dice Grenache 2015
Alpha Box and Dice Grenache 2015

Mclaren Vale, Australia

Alcohol: 13%  Sweetness: Dry  750 ml

$22.00

Alpha Box and Dice Shiraz 2012
Alpha Box and Dice Shiraz 2012

Mclaren Vale, Australia

Alcohol: 13%  Sweetness: Dry  750 ml

$50.00

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