Wild & Wilder, ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’, South Australia, Australia 2020

Wild & Wilder sums up their winemaking ethos as “Great fruit, grown by great people and made with a lot of love by people that know that wine is all about the good times, delicious food and creating great memories.” Founded by Giles Cooke MW and Fergal Tynan MW, who also make the Thistledown wines, the mundane is just not in their DNA.

Cloud Cuckoo Land is an imaginary state of absurd over optimism – something that all those at Wild & Wilder are often accused of. Indeed, not so long ago, if they had said that they wanted to make high quality, low intervention wines made from Mediterranean varieties (Fiano, Greco and Muscat) in South Australia’s Riverland, Cloud Cuckoo land is exactly where people would have said that they lived! 

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