Vivant Selections is an importer and distributor of wines in Australia. We work with wines of purity and character. They are expressive of the grape themselves, as well as the places they are grown and the people that make them.
Varietal Book
Region Jura, France
Valentin's book, Another Wine - How to Think About the Vineyard in the Face of the Ecological Crisis has now been translated into English.
Niche works of this sort will never find a wide audience. If Another Wine still feels worth sharing with the Anglophone world, it’s because I can think of no other contemporary work in English that deals honestly and bluntly with the hard work of being a peasant vigneron. It is to Morel’s immense credit that he refrains, throughout the book, from indulging in any wine sales blah-blah. There are almost no tasting notes, no extended odes to his own terroir. Instead, Morel memorably illustrates the motivations for - and the implications of - his decisions to farm organically, to vinify naturally, and to plant hybrid grape varieties.
AARON AYSCOUGH; NOT DRINKING POISON - AUG 14, 2026
Varietal Cinsault, Syrah, Grenache
Region Languedoc, France
A blend of predominately Cinsault, with Grenache and a little Syrha. This is a vibrant and youthful wine that ferments and rests in tank only.
Red fruits and freshness, jubey and light, easy drinking and an absolute crowd pleaser. In the warmer months it even happily enjoys a chill in the fridge. If ever there was a wine to please the Pinot and Shiraz drinker, then this is it.
Varietal Sylvaner
Region Franconia, Germany
Stefan Vetter produces wines of tension and drive; a reflection of their terroir and their maker. Sylvaner is not known as an aromatic variety, it's more famous for its structure and crunchy acidity. Here in continental Franconia, it displays green fruited, herbaceous attributes.
Green apple, chamomile, reserved. Grapefruit. Tensile. A marathon runner. A slippery dip - just as you think it’s getting to the end it soars. Fluid and crystalline. Mineral, pure and expressive.
Varietal Riesling
Region Franconia, Germany
Stefan Vetter’s wines are low alcohol, enticing expressions of the variety. They don’t scream I am here, they unfurl, inviting you to discover and explore.
Riesling from a few small parcels, 60% grown on limestone soils (Muschelkalk) and 40% on red sandstone. Mandarin skin and pith. Concentrated fruit, yellow and orange. There is tension. Salivating acidity. Fruit phenolics kiss. A powerful but poised palate of delicate complexity.