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Wine Description
The Story
This is 100% Grenache from 2 dry-grown, own-rooted, sandy vineyards: our own Rza Block (estimated to have been planted between 1860-1880) and an 80-85-year old vineyard a kilometer away. Both vineyards are located in the heart of the Vine Vale, the coolest region of the Barossa Valley, situated at the foot of the Eden Valley in South Australia.
An Approach To Relaxation is a joint project between Master Sommelier Richard Betts and Carla Rza...
Wine Information
2017 was cold and wet, resulting in a later than typical harvest which stretched into May. 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 in to fall, with a later than usual pick date from April 29 to May 10.
Given the cooler nature of the 2017 vintage, we elected to include 20% of the bunches as whole-cluster, compared to the 3...
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...
