| 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 |
