Grapes into wine: Quealy’s skin-contact Turbul range
This is an extremely interesting style of wine, and this range has turned out beautifully. Kevin McCarthy and Kathleen Quealy wrote the first chapter on skin-contact wine in Australia. Their son, Tom, took it up a level with the first release of Turbul Friulano a decade ago.
Now, drawing on their years of friendship and learning in northeast Italy, experimentation at home and organic viticulture on the Balnarring vineyard, they have released a groundbreaking Turbul quartet: Ribolla Gialla, Malvasia Istriana, Moscato Giallo and Friulano.
In this video, Tom explains the evolution of the project, the time and technique involved and how these delicious, thought-provoking wines reveal themselves at end of the process.