JUMPING JUICE returns

Joe Gurba • Jul 26, 2022
Vino al Vino New Bottlings
Jumping Juice - Wine Line-up

The glou glou side project from best mates and Aussie wine legends Pat Sullivan & Xavier Goodridge.

Patrick Sullivan in the Vineyard

Jumping Juice is the perfect collab. It’s the wine equivalent of Freddie Mercury & Bowie recording Under Pressure, a space for creative winemaking in search of the most crushable kind of complexities. Pure southern hemisphere sunshine in a bottle!

Patrick Sullivan - Smelling in the Cellar

Learn more about this wild project below—but first, to the wines!


We only get a small amount of wine from Jumping Juice each year. So grab what you need while they last!


This year JJ’s also added a delicious Riesling and Orange wines to their line-up of wines!



THIS YEAR’S BOTTLINGS


Jumping Juice - Riesling

Jumping Juice Riesling

Eden Valley fruit


“We believe that when Riesling comes from such a nice site we don’t play with this wine or give it time on skins, as we want to taste the terroir and purity of the slate soils it’s grown in, so we treat the grapes in a way to capture that. We love Riesling. We love the freshness, the coolness and its pure deliciousness. This wine is all about minerality, citrus and tension and texture… A bit like a swim in the ocean when you’re seriously hungover. Or a hot towel on an airplane… only in reverse. Riesling is the drink for everyone on any occasion.” - Pat & Xavier


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Jumping Juice - Yellow

Jumping Juice ‘Yellow’

Margaret River fruit

Sauvignon Blanc, Gewürztraminer (87% and 13% respectively)


“It’s ripe, tropical, pineapples and cream – a hipster’s paradise. Made to taste like the true sun-baked place it’s from. Electric energy pouring out of the bottle.” - Pat & Xavier


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Jumping Juice - Orange

Jumping Juice ‘Orange’

Riverina fruit.

Equal parts Vermentino, Fiano, Zibibbo (Muscat d'Alexandria)


“A wine that we should have always made. Aromatically, an absolute whirlwind of character, floral as a flower shop in peak wedding season. Texture for days and the color to match. This wine has serious, SERIOUS drinkability. We love our sun drenched country and as this wine shows, the grapes do too.” - Pat & Xavier


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Jumping Juice - Sunset

Jumping Juice ‘Sunset’

Margaret River fruit.

Syrah, Gewürztraminer, Sauvignon Blanc (31/13/56% respectively)


Sometimes we just want to drink Juice. Sometimes we just want a bit of alchemy. The color of Summer and the scent of a holiday. Crunchy, lush, fruit bomb crazy.” - Pat & Xavier


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Jumping Juice - Half Full Red

Jumping Juice ‘Half Full Red’

Margaret River fruit.

Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, and skin-fermented Sauvignon Blanc.
(45-45-10% respectively)


“Always about optimism. Life’s great and as is this wine…always. Bright, delicious and incredibly juicy. A co-ferment of the ages. This wine has some serious deliciousness, crunch and vibrancy.” - Pat & Xavier


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Jumping Juice - Pinot Noir

Jumping Juice Pinot Noir

Victoria fruit


“Everybody just wants a Pinot Noir that is slurpable, enjoyable and fun. Made in a serious way for fun everyday drinking. This wine walks a fine line between party time and dinner with the in-laws. See where the adventure takes you.” - Pat & Xavier


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The JUMPING JUICE Story

Jumping Juice - Logo

Both Patrick Sullivan and Xavier Goodridge are internationally loved for their eponymous wines. They're both low-intervention terroirists farming Burgundian varieties in the Gippsland, east of Melbourne, Australia's cool-climate maritime south.


At the tender age of 18 the two moved to London to work in wine bars. They've been climbing the wine ranks in tandem ever since. It was only a matter of time 'till they teamed up!


Jumping Juice is where Pat & Xavier apply their most playful winemaking, giving us a more affordable second label to chug on weekdays. These are jubilant Aussie drops of equal parts complexity and crushability, fine wine and fun wine, fine in the streets and a freak in the sheets. It’s a certified bucket of Australian sunshine, bottled and dispatched to our frozen climes.


This year's grapes for Jumping Juice were either grown by their west coast pal Mike Sleggers, a biodynamic grower in Margaret River, or by Pat Sullivan & William Downie at their jointly farmed biodynamic vineyards in the Baw Baw Shire, Gippsland.


Each year Pat and Xavier tweak their JJ cuvées. No recipes, just experimenting for new heights in freshness (without losing their wines to rogue flaws or over-simplicity). Their wines have one foot in the glou glou vin-de-soif camp and the other in that sophisticated dynamism their eponymous wines are famous for.

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Vino Al Vino is an Alberta wine importer and wine wholesaler specializing in real wines, wines with minimal intervention. All of our wines are sustainable. Almost all of our wines are certified organic. Many of our wines are certified biodynamic. Many of our wines are full-throttle zero-zero natural wines.


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