The Aldinga vineyard is from 80 year old plantings on and ripens slowly with good acid retention and flavour development.The McLaren Flat parcel is planted on deep sand to 25 year old vines and ripens much later while prividing a floral lift to the wine.The Whites Valley block is on red sandy loam and gives good structure and flesh mid palate.
20% of the blend was hand picked and placed as whole bunches in a sealed vessel to undergo Carbonic Maceration for 14 days before being destemmed and fermented out on skins for a further 7 days. The Aldinga vineyard had 15% whole bunches added to open fermenters with the balance of fruit destemmed only to cover the whole bunches. The balance of the blend was fermented as whoile berries and no crushing. The ferments were plunged twice daily for
the entire time on skins. The wine was pressed directly to 20% New French oak puncheons with the balance going to seasoned French Oak puncheons and left on full yeast lees to build complexity and mouthfeel.Racked from barrel, and clarified before been bottled.
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