CAREY GULLY – PICCADILLY VALLEY – ADELAIDE HILLS

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The Wine
The view from the Whisson Lake slope (Mt Carey) is expansive and impressive. The vines drink in a view of half the Adelaide Hills. Like the view, the wine has a lot going on. The more you look, the more you realise is there.

Deep, dark, and bright in the glass. Flinty and matchstick in the initial opening evolve into cherry ripe, anise, and all the red fruits on the nose. The palate is plush, slick with sour cherry notes that carry through to all the red fruits, with hints of yaki nori and dark olives.  The finish is mouth-filling and expansive.

Cellaring
Drink/cellar to 2031+.

The Winemaking
Made by Candice and Frewin at the CRFT winery in Carey Gully.
Hand-picked, then 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 on full lees. Occasional lees stirring. Matured for 10 months in 100% French oak, 15% new.
14% alc/vol. Vegan-friendly.

Whisson Lake Vineyard
Owned and farmed by wife-and-husband duo Andrie and Mark Whisson.

The Whisson Lake vineyard is the first planting of Pinot Noir in the Adelaide Hills. Planted in 1980, it makes the vineyard officially ‘old vine’, not something you hear very often in the Adelaide Hills.

The vineyard commands an impressive east-facing slope and is the highest-altitude vineyard in South Australia. If we had a cru system in the Piccadilly Valley, the Whisson Lake Vineyard would be at the top of the list.

Location:      Kaurna + Peramangk Country - Carey Gully (Adelaide Hills)
Elevation:     610 meters
Aspect:        North-east facing
Planted:       1985
Clone:         D5V12
Soil:          Clay with schist and Gneiss

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