Estate Grown
With each vineyard aspect being a unique spectrum of clone selections, soil profiles, plus the development of new techniques to vine training, it provides the winemakers with a comprehensive array of styles, flavours and characters.
Vintage 2017
BAROSSA VALLEY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
VINEYARD NOTES
The Rosenzweig vineyard which is grown on sandy brown loam over red clay and a deep limestone mix.
Planted in 1935 and surviving the Barossa vine pull in the 1980’s and going against economic advice at the time to pull out the vines, Aubrey Rosenzweig left these vines in the ground and today we can enjoy his vision.
These vines enjoy a small amount of additional food and supplementary water to help maintain then on tough days. The vine is trained to a single wire trellis system with lift wires. Detailed spur pruning gives better bunch positioning and a limited number of grapes per year.
HARVEST NOTES
2017 growing season was one of the wettest on record. Cooler than average spring and early summer meant the vines grew slowly but healthily. Two short bursts of high temperatures. Two well-timed rain events in late January and early February kept vines healthy and in no rush to ripen, with the rest of February remaining dry. The average minimum and maximum temperatures for March were 2 to 3oC above average, followed by a notable shift to much cooler nights from late March onwards.
Hand harvested, destemmed, cultured yeast, twice daily pump over and 20% plunged. After ferment is done, we press the juice from the skins with our computer controlled open slot air bag press to barrel. The wine undergoes malolactic fermentation then we rack and return to barrel for maturation. This is a single vineyard wine blended for bottling.
Download Tasting Notes Estate Grown Grenache Vintage 2017
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