VINE VALE - BAROSSA VALLEY

(ORGANICALLY FARMED AND MADE, UNCERTIFIED).

93 points - Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion:
”Wild-fermented mencia from Vine Vale. What a thing! A really delicious red, lipsmacking with its ripeish raspberry, sour cherry, cola and cranberry flourishes and neatly tied together with malty wood elements, pepper and minty herbal notes. Sloshes nicely in the palate, a supple flow through a long finish, tidied up just a touch with some powdery, gummy tannins. Really easy to like this.”

The Wine
The colour deep and dark with a purple hue that flirts with your eyes. The nose of dark cherry, tea leaves, coconut and hints of dried herbs with a savoury tone. It has a fresh and lively palate with red fruit and plush tannins. Smooth and delicious.
Organically grown and made (uncertified)
Drink or cellar to 2030.
June 2023 release.

The Winemaking

Hand-picked on the 4th April and organically made at our certified organic CRFT winery in Carey Gully. Destemmed to an open-top tank for wild fermentation with around 2 weeks on skins. Pressed to oak once dry for wild malolactic fermentation and maturation. Occasional lees stirring. Matured for 9 months in 100% French oak, 15% new. 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

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