St Florence is an Australian Wild Ale refermented with wine grapes. It is named for Topher and his wife's first daughter and released around Florence's birthday. The Saint Florence was a 7th century abbess from Cartagena, Spain. After a 3 week carbonic maceration, we moved two barrels of aged mixed culture golden beer onto the grapes. 1706 was a reclaimed barrel of our fated Gold Blend #2, a blend we never released because were unhappy with it, but put back to barrel to age. With this we blended barrel #1714, a 10 month old Gold barrel. These were blended in on the ides (15th) of March. The beer was in contact with the fermenting grapes for over 3 months until on June 20th, the vessel was emptied and put directly to bottle at 5% ABV and 0.2P (1.001 SG). The flavours of this beer were so delicate we decided not to blend in a third barrel as we normally do for our fruit beers. Thus we only yielded around 400 bottles of this variant this year. At release, the beer has a spice dominant nose of cumin and woody cedar, lifted by red cherries and stalk. The front palate is dominated by the Pinot fruit: redcurrant and raspberry blended with alpine herbs and cellar funk that results in a beer of true subtly and nuance. The way the beer evolves in the glass is a testament to the thoughtful handling and blending of the beer.