Grapes: Shiraz
Region: Fleurieu, SA
Style: Medium bodied fruity red
Tasting Notes: Fresh, Cranberry, Spice
Notes from Travis: Our red this year is made entirely out of Shiraz. The vineyard is called ‘top range’ and is situated at the top of a North West facing valley and the southern end of the Adelaide Hills. The soils here are fairly common ridge top soils for this area with some iron stone and quartz deposits in loamy clay with a sandstone bed- rock. We destemmed about half of the fruit and then carbonically macerated the rest. At the end of ferment the destemmed fruit went to barrel while the carbonic stuff stayed in stainless. The wine was blended at the end of August and bottled early September. The style is medium bodied with fresh crisp acid and powdery tannin. Glou!
