Production notes:
90% Dolcetto from La Cantinas beautiful organic vineyard in the King Valley and 10% Chardonnay from our home block, the Celeste Vineyard in the Whitlands was used for topping. The fruit was pressed immediately hard and slow yielding roughly 70% extraction. The wine was then naturally fermented reaching a maximum temperature of 24 degrees. Bottled with 16 grams of residual sugar per litre. Inverted and chilled, then each bottle was hand disgorged, tipped, topped, re-capped, cleaned, dried, labeled and boxed for your drinking pleasure.
Tasting notes:
Opens with aromas of poached Fuji apple and a whisper of spice. The palate hums with quince, multi-coloured fruit tingles and rolls out into a smooth line of cherry.
The Colour looms large with this one, somewhere between a gangster Aperol, a sexy ruby and the fabled Beauty and the Beast rose.
