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GOLD MEDAL Berlin Wine Trophy 2020

93 POINTS James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion 2021
"From Light Pass, Bethany and Marananga. Minimalistic winemaking - open ferment, basket press, 24 months in French oak, unfiltered. Full-bodied...Dark chocolate, blackberry. Drink by 2029"

95 POINTS Andrew Caillard MW
"Medium crimson. Classical dark chocolate dark berry aromas with underlying red liquorice/ savoury complexity. Well concentrated and generously proportioned with plentiful blackberry redcurrant red liquorice flavours, fine plentiful looseknit chalky textures and roasted walnut, roasted almond, vanillin, spice notes. Finishes chalky firm with lovely sweet fruit, chinotto, tobacco complexity." 

Winery Notes
"Medium to deep crimson/purple. Powerfully intense aniseed, blackberry, mulberry and blueberry fruit aromas, with ginger, mint notes.

Vigorous and fleshy with generous blueberry, blackberry flavours, excellent mid-palate richness and plentiful brambly-chocolatey tannins. 

The grapes are destemmed, but not crushed, and spend seven days on their skins in open fermenters with hand-plunging twice daily to more gently extract colour, flavours and tannins.

This is followed by careful basket pressing and malolactic fermentation in a combination of new and seasoned French oak prior to 24 months maturation in our cellars. 

The grapes from this wine come from just three small vineyards in the Bethany, Marananga and Light Pass parishes of the Barossa. The Bethany vineyard lies on sandy loams and alluvial clays, while the Light Pass vineyard is on alluvial Sandy Brown loams and the Marananga on rich red-brown loams. 

These low-yielding “Barossa Old Vines” were planted before 1965 and are now fully mature. They have a root structure and trunk thickness that encourage diversity of flavour and character. Their worthiness has been proven over many vintages, consistently producing the highest quality fruit." 

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