GRAPE VARIETY: | Tempranillo |
VINTAGE: | 2019 |
REGION: | 100% One Tree Hill |
ANALYSIS: | 14.5% Alcohol |
CELLAR POTENTIAL: | This wine is approachable upon release, but will benefit with careful cellaring between 4-6 years |
COLOUR: | Deep and medium intensity with pink to purple hues |
BOUQUET: | A lifted aromatic profile with violets, black olives and blackberries. |
PALATE: | While being medium bodied, this Tempranillo displays lovely spicy but savoury flavours of red berries, plums and soft rounded tannins. |
VINEYARD & VITICULTURE: | Sourced from a single low yielding vineyard from Southern One Tree Hill, with an average yield of 2.5 tonne per acre. |
WINEMAKING: | Crushed and destemmed to an open top fermenter, where cooling was employed throughout the fermentation between 18-25oC. There was two pump overs and one hand plunge every day to optimise flavour, colour and tannin extraction. After 7 days of fermentation the fermented wine was then gently Basket Pressed to a settling tank for 2 days, where it was then racked to new and older oak barrels to undergo Malolactic fermentation. |
STORAGE/MATURATION: | 12 months in new and seasoned French oak Hogsheads |