VINE VALE - BAROSSA VALLEY
Reviews
93 POINTS - JENI PORT (HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION)
”Matured 10 months in French oak. A bold and fleshy wine, a new addition to the CFRT portfolio, with the promise of a second planting at the Rohrlach Vineyard in the Barossa also coming on stream soon. Black is the abiding theme: black as night in colour, dark blackberries, black licorice, black Vegemite-yeasty savouriness. Generous and supple, it's all wrapped up in bold tannin.”
The Wine
The nose shows beetroot, rhubarb and ripe black mulberries with a creamy mid pallet and blackberry jam finish. Sour cherries, bay leaf and nutmeg in the mix.
Benefits from a little time to breathe upon opening.
Drink at release or cellar to 2026, possibly beyond.
Suggested serving temperature 15-17C.
RRP $31
The Winemaking
Harvested 26th Feb 2021.
Hand-made at CRFT Carey Gully winery.
100% Barossa Valley Mencía grapes, hand-picked.
Wild fermented in an open-top tank, gentle hand plunge only, then pressed to barrel for wild malolactic fermentation and maturation. Occasional bottonage.
Matured for 10 months in 100% French oak, 25% 1yo old, 75% older oak.
Alcohol- 13.5% alc/vol, Sugar/GF - Dry/<0.1g/L
Bottled 24th January 2022, Vegan friendly.
The Vineyard
Elaine Schmidt owns and farms the Mencía vines at Vine Vale (Barossa Valley).
Organically farmed (uncertified) from the 2018/2019 growing season onwards.
Planted: 2012 (half grafted, half planted on own roots)
Soil: Deep sandy loam topsoil, over deep red clay subsoil.
Map: -34.686931, 138.898547