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Shop/ 2020 Adelaide Hills Red Wine2020 Adelaide Hills Red Wine
Easy drinking red – medium bodied, red fruits and spice
Vineyard: Coulter, Gower & Deanery Vineyards
Varietal: 38% Pinot Noir, 35% Merlot, 21% Shiraz & 6% Mencia
Planted: 2000, 1996 & 1998
Soil type: Clay loam on shale soft rock and sandy loam on deep clay
Picking date: March 9, 12, 17 & 22 2020
Picking method: Hand harvested and sorted in vineyard
Processing: Destemmed retaining 50% whole berries with no whole bunch
Fermentation: Natural ferment in open top steel fermenters, hand plunged twice daily
Time on skins: 2 weeks
Pressing: Free run and pressings combined
Settling: Settled off gross lees for 7 days
Aging vessel: 2000L Slavonian oak Foudre for 7 months, then stainless steel for 2 months on fine lees
Filtration: No
Fining: No
Alc: 13.5
pH: 3.71
TA: 5.8
SO2: 26 F / 42 T
Production: 440 dozen