Torzi Matthews is a food and winemaking partnership between Domenic Torzi and Tracy Matthews. Both share a passion and firm conviction of appreciating the value of heritage in the crafting of their wines and olive produce.
In 1996 they stumbled across a small, frost-pocketed hollow in the beautiful Mt McKenzie, Eden Valley and fell in love with the area for its remoteness and its diverse thin soils. The rationale was quite simple: this land would produce low yields of fruit which in turn would translate into flavoursome European style wines – the style of wines needed to match their Mediterranean food.
Torzi Matthews also produces wines under the Vigna Cantina label that introduces their Italian family native varietals and those outside the Italian wares that they seek interest to explore. These wines are truly wonderful in their aromatics and fresh lively fruit flavours that are the pinnacle of Mediterranean food pairing.
Region Eden Valley
Sub-Region Mount McKenzie
Specified Vineyard Mount McKenzie
Altitude 380 meters
Vineyard Practices
Family traditional biological farming methods with a diet of composts, native grasses & flora as ground cover, low water imput and natural sprays for diseases.
Soil Clay loam over a shaley schist rock bed.
Trellis System Single wire
Varietal Shiraz
Age of Vines 18 years
Closure Stelvin
Yield per Vine 2.5 kg / 2.3 ton per acre
Oak Treatment 30% new 50/50 French & Hungarian oak 500lt barrels for 20 months with balance in seasoned French oak 225lt barrels
Vintage
Average winter rains and average fruit set was a sign of a low cropping vintage with spring as per usual serving up a slight frost during the 1st week of November reducing yields by 10%. The summer months between December and March was dry, mild to warm conditions with no temperature extremes leading into April harvest to produce a generous complex shiraz bursting with deep aromatics and flavours.
Wine Making
In the garage the shiraz fruit was gently destemmed including 35% whole bunch into open top milk vats and fermented warm with natural bearing yeasts birthed from the vineyard with soft pump overs, hand plunging and basket pressed to barrel to complete ferment. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. Expect all that this label represents; wine enjoyment!
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