Rosé 2024
2024
100% Syrah
12.4% Alc.
Production: 4560 bottles (screw cap)
Syrah from our Calgardup Homeblock in the southern Margaret River Region. The wine was fermented with wild vineyard yeasts in used French oak barriques where is matured in barrel on fine lees for 3 months and spent a total of 9 months in old oak before bottling.
A bone dry and savoury Rose displaying wild strawberry hints, fresh mineral acidity and a light and soft texture. The perfect accompaniment to a warm Summer day. This wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered and a harmless sediment may remain.
The Vineyard:
The fruit is sourced from our Calgardup home block vineyard which we purchased in 2022 and nursed back into production after a 5 year period of being mothballed. The vines were planted in 1996 on a western facing slope and produces low yielding but delicate fruit flavors and a crisp acidity that we love in our Rosè.
Winemaking:
The fruit was hand harvested into small 8kg crates and brought immediately back to the winery for processing. The grapes were tipped 1 crate at a time through our Italian de-stemmer to gently remove the whole berries from the stem/rachis of the bunch. The grapes were de-stemmed directly into our basket press and pressed immediately with no extended time given for maceration and colour pick-up. The grapes were gently pressed directly to seasoned oak barrels yielding a very low juice recovery rate of only 50% meaning that only the very finest of the free-run juice was extracted from the fruit to make this wine.
The wine was allowed to undergo fermentation utilising the indigenous yeasts which came to the winery on the grape skins from the vineyard. The wine was fermented to absolute dryness (i.e. no sugar is left at all) and left for a couple of months on yeast lees to develop more complexity and texture.
Following a primary racking, via gravity, off the heavy yeast lees to clean old barrels the Rosé was bottled un-fined and un-filtered. Overall the wine spent 9 months in wood.
Salutè
Robert Gherardi
