McLaren Vale, South Australia. GRENACHE, SHIRAZ, MOURVÈDRE
Yangarra Estate Vineyard is located in the northeastern foothills of McLaren
Vale, at the base of the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges. We specialise in producing Southern Rhone varietal wines which are all grown on our single-estate vineyard: a 420 acre haven of 35 individual blocks set amongst natural landscapes, towering gum trees, creeks and corridors. Our wines are
complex and vibrant expressions of the vineyard’s distinctive terroir, with its higher elevation, unique sandy soils, and cool night-time air owing from the Ranges.
Vineyard and Vintage
Our GSM is a careful blending of Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvèdre in which the composition varies from year to year, conveying the traditional estate blends of the southern Rhône. The backbone of the wine comes from our old bush vine Grenache planted in 1946.
Winemaking
The grapes were harvested at night and received by way of a belt elevator (rather than a screw hopper which macerates the skins) and only de-stemmed. Whole berries were double sorted before going into open-top fermenters. We cold soaked the fermentation tanks for 5-6 days until the onset of wild fermentation, utilizing the yeasts that naturally come in with the grapes from the vineyard. The open fermenters underwent a careful regime of plunging and rack and returns. The wine was then sent to older French barriques after about 12-14 days and kept on the yeast lees for approximately 12 months prior to blending. The wine received no fining, just filltration.
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