CRFT 2024 Grüner Veltliner – The Arranmore Vineyard (NASAA Certified Organic)
CRFT 2024 Grüner Veltliner – The Arranmore Vineyard (NASAA Certified Organic)
CAREY GULLY – PICCADILLY VALLEY – ADELAIDE HILLS
Wine
The colour is pale and bright with a vibrant green hue, as the bottle suggests!
Citrus flavours of lime and lime leaf initially, then in true Gruner style, the background flavours of white pepper and fennel seeds light-up!
The mouthwatering acidity is followed by a textured palate, with an almost crumbly almond crunch, like Frew's Grandmother’s Vanille Kipferl biscuits. Yum!
12.5% alc/vol
Cellaring
Enjoy at release, or drink/cellar until 2029+.
Winemaking
Made by Candice and Frew at the CRFT winery in Carey Gully. Harvested 13th March. Whole-bunch pressed to tank, then transferred to older seasoned (neutral) French barriques for barrel fermentation on full solids. 100% wild yeast ferment. Full wild MLF and regular lees stirring. Around 2 months in barrel. Bottled June 2024. Vegan friendly.
Arranmore Vineyard
If there is one reason why we tough-out the cold climate at Arranmore, well this vineyard is it! Being an East / South facing slope on top off a breezy hill, it can feel relentlessly cold.
When we drive out the driveway it feels like anywhere in SA is warmer than us, and that's probably the truth.
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 – Peramangk Country – Adelaide Hills
Elevation: 550 meters
Aspect: East facing
Planted: Grafted on 22yo vines, winter 2017. Cuttings from Geoff Hardy’s K1 vineyard Grüner.
Clone: Elite
Map: -34.969564, 138.760102
Soil: Dark loam topsoil over clay subsoil, with shale and ironstone bedrock.
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