APPEARANCE:
Deep garnet red
TASTING NOTES:
Mouthfilling, juicy and supple, it has concentrated, small red fruits, perfumes and spice flavours, with finely integrated oak adding complexity, and obvious cellaring potential; open 2019+
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Location – Estate grown grapes from Aurum’s organic Te Wairere vineyard in Lowburn, near Cromwell, Central Otago. Low cropping grapes for this wine were hand harvested in April 2016 after long slow ripening.
CLIMATE:
A season of hot dry days and cool nights allowed an extended ripening of ripe clean fruit still holding good acidity.
SOILS:
Windblown sands and silts.
VITICULTURE:
16 year old vines on VSP trellis.
WINEMAKER’S COMMENTS:
The grapes were mostly destemmed, cold soaked for 5 days and fermented in open vats with wild yeasts. The wine was matured in French oak barrels for 12 months. Unfined and unfiltered.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Bottled: July 2017
