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VINEYARD BLOCKS
1 block 4 year old vines on 5 wire vertical trellis.
Clone 20C on 101-14 rootstock.
Elevated east facing slope. Soil deep red Hutton. Yield 4
tons / hect.
Lightly irrigated after varaison to avoid excessive stress
during the critical ripening period.
14% merlot included.
VINTAGE CONDITIONS
An ideal dry, moderately hot summer with few excessively hot
days. The harvest commenced in perfect conditions with ripe,
healthy grapes producing big, but balanced wines.
Harvest date: 16 / 2 / 01 @ 26.1° balling.
PRODUCTION
100% destemming and crushing by hand directly into 2 ton open
top fermentation tanks. Spontaneous natural
yeast fermentation @ 32ºC with the cap of skins
punched down 2 - 6 times a day for 14 days. Wine drained directly
to barrels together with single pressing from traditional
basket press. All our red wine undergoes malolactic fermentation
in the barrel. 25% new French oak
and 10% new American oak was
used from high quality coopers. Time in barrels 22
months, which included several rackings to gradually
clarify the wine and assist maturation development. This wine
was bottled unfiltered by hand
on the property.
Bottling date : 9 January 2003
Production : 150 cases.
TASTING NOTES
Deep, dark, brooding red colour.
Smoky, spicy deep red fruits, vanilla and plum chocolate nose.
Big, rich concentrated fruit palate with full tannic mouthfeel
and long, dry finish.
Probably best between 2005 - 2010.
Enjoy with rich meat dishes.
ANALYSIS
Alc. 15.39 SG.1.9 TA 5.1
pH 3.63 VA 0.67 SO2 26 & 58
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