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Wine Description
The Story
Vineyards & Clones: Wallis (Tree Block 100%) & Clone P58 (100%)
Winemaking: Grapes hand-harvested late March, whole bunch pressed and the unsettled juice fermented by indigenous yeasts in 15% new oak, some 228 litre French oak barrels, some 600 litre Austrian oak barrels. A 10 month aging in barrel with no bâtonnage to keep wines fresher and more taut. Natural partial (88%) malolactic fermentation before bottling unfined and filtered.
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Wine Information
Hand picked 24 March 2017 & 1.9 tonnes/ha (0.8 t/acre, ~11.4hl/ha)
Residual sugar: Dry (0.42 g/l)
pH 3.28
TA 7.1 g/l
Alcohol: 12.5% (7.4 standard drinks/750ml bottle)
Production: 206 dozen
Following an average rainfall and relatively warm winter, it was again the spring weather leading up to flowering which caused issues. October was our third wettest on record (96mm v 62mm average) and November saw our second coldest maximum...
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...
