The Finnish driver teamed up with an Aussie winery for a bold Shiraz.
drivers currently on the grid, Vatteri Bottas is approached for many a moneymaking venture. This is not one of them.. And it’s clear from how Bottas has approached the project, he’s looking to actually make wine more than he’s hoping to make money. “We’re a very small family business,” says sixth-generation winemaker Corrina Wright. “He’s doing this because this is what he wants to do—we’re not paying him any money to be our sports spokesperson or anything like that.
Fortunately for Bottas, his girlfriend Tiffany Cromwell—a professional road cyclist who represented Australia in the Tokyo Olympics—is from Adelaide Hills, so he frequently finds himself in South Australia during the off-season. While basking in the Southern Hemisphere summer, he and Cromwell enjoy taking in wineries, and her mother happened to have an acquaintance at Oliver’s Taranga.
Eventually Bottas approached Wright to ask if they could make a wine together. By the time they agreed to partner up, the 2022 vintage was already resting in barrel, so they had numerous blocks of Shiraz they could select from to craft a blend.“In the beginning there was quite a big selection of stuff to try—there were almost too many options on what to blend,” Bottas says.
Through trial and error, Bottas created a blend he was quite happy with—one that really suited the style of bold wine he liked to drink. They produced 5,000 bottles, sold in a two-pack that currently has distribution in Australia and the United States. And Bottas named it Ihana, which is a Finnish word meaning “wonderful” or “lovely.”But the moment of truth came when he returned home to see what his friends would think of his blend.
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