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Nine Popes 2018

Charles Melton Wines, Barossa Valley, Australia

Charles Melton Wines
Barossa Valley Australia
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Charles Melton Wines have produced premium Barossa red wines at their winery on Krondorf Road, since 1984. `Nine Popes` is a Grenache/Shiraz/Mataro blend offering up sweet fruit together with hints of liquorice on the nose carrying through to the palate together with gently spiced character.

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Vintage 2018

AUSTRALIA: Very promising quality with the most optimistic reviewers declaring 2018 great in every region and for every variety. The more cautious view is that early frosts reduced yields, but that consistent good weather throughout the second half of the growing season actually resulted in great potential.

Barossa 2018 vintage to savor

The 2018 Barossa vintage was completed at the end of April 2018, with growers and winemakers satisfied...

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This wine opens with a density of aromatics and notes of toasty flint, anise and liquorice. On the palate, generous but finely structured sweet red fruit characters are intermingled with all spice. It is rich and complex in the Nine Popes tradition.


The Grenache in this blend comes from old bush vines in the Barossa, many of which are over 80 years old. The Mourvèdre is also from a small parcel of bush vines in the Eden Valley, whilst the Shiraz is trellis grown. The blend is made up primarily of grapes from Charles Melton's prime vineyards plus some from the vineyards of a small number of trusted partner growers. None of the vineyards are irrigated, they are all dry grown. This coupled with the low yielding old vines leads to great concentrations of flavour in the grapes.

Nine Popes was vinified with a couple of key objectives in mind. Both whole bunch fermentation and destemmed but uncrushed berries were used during the maceration period, to ensure the greatest degree of fragrance, along with cool fermentation temperatures and careful cap management to gain the silky texture and density that the Popes is known for. The wine underwent malolactic fermentation in a mix of old and new oak, where it remained for 18 months. The wine was then transferred to new French oak for a further twelve months prior to natural settling and bottling.


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