Rosé 2024

100% Syrah

12.4% Alc.

Production: 2707 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 on fine lees for 4 months and spent a total of 10 months before bottling. 

A bone dry and savoury Rosé 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 flavours 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 fruit was whole bunch basket 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 went through 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 four 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 10 months in barrels.

Salutè

Robert Gherardi