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Wine Description
The Story
The dry-grown, own-rooted Semillon as well as the Sauvignon Blanc come from sandy vineyards in the cool, Eastern area of the Barossa Valley known as the Vine Vale in South Australia.
An Approach To Relaxation is a joint project between husband and wife team Richard (Master Sommelier) and Carla Rza Betts (formerly of The Spotted Pig, The Breslin and The John Dory Oyster Bar in NYC.)
Wine Information
THis wine is a blend of 90% Semillon (60-65 year old vines) and 10% Sauvignon Blanc (25 years old).
The 2017 vintage was cold and wet to begin, resulting in a later than typical harvest. Cooler than average Spring lead into an early Summer with slow, healthy growth and higher yields than the previous few years. Temperatures dropped a bit heading into fall, with a later than usual pick date of March 7. We basket pressed over a slow 12 hour c...
Vintage 2017
AUSTRALIA VINTAGE REPORT: The 2017 winegrape crush is estimated to be 1.93 million tonnes, based on responses received by the Wine Sector Survey 2017. This crush is 5 per cent higher than the 2016 final crush figure of 1.84 million tonnes (Department of Agriculture and Water Resources – Levies recorded figure). It is the third consecutive vintage where the tonnes crushed have increased.
Additional tonnes this year came relatively equally fr...
