PICCADILLY VALLEY - ADELAIDE HILLS

92 points - Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion.

The Wine
The colour is vivid, bright, and enticing. The noise leaps out like fist full of the forest floor… Earthy, floral, mushroom, sap, and wet ironstone, then it greets you with all the berries… blackberries, raspberries, mulberries. The palate is soft and structured. Like Its vineyard home the wine has a lot of presence and power!  
Drink or cellar to 2032.
June 2024 release.

The Winemaking
Made at CRFT winery in Carey Gully. Hand-picked in three batches on 17^th, 19^th and 21st April. A blend of two clones, D5V12 and 115. Cold-soaked followed by wild fermentation in an open-top tank with 25% whole bunch. Pressed to barrel once dry for wild malolactic fermentation and maturation. Occasional lees stirring. Matured for 9 months in 100% French oak, 30% new oak. Vegan friendly.

The Arranmore Vineyard
Estate-owned, managed and farmed, the 5-acre Arranmore Vineyard has been farmed organically since Frewin & Candice took ownership in January 2016.

NASAA Certified Organic since February 2019.

Location:      Carey Gully, Kaurna + Peramangk Country (ADL Hills)
Elevation:     550 meters
Aspect:        East facing
Planted:       D5V12 planted in 1994, 115 planted in 2000.
Map:           -34.969564, 138.760102
Soil:          Dark loam topsoil over clay subsoil, with shale and ironstone bedrock.

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