A soft floral nose with hints of thyme, dried strawberry and charcuterie all give way to a palate full of refreshing red berry fruits and spice with a long savoury finish.

Like all serious rosés, this wine is best served lightly chilled and is a great accompaniment to Mediterranean styled cuisine and anything from the sea.

Winemaking:

Adopting the traditional French method of Saignée, juice is “bled off” freshly destemmed fruit sourced from selected Barossa Mataro vineyards.

This elemental winemaking process provides an insight into the personality and intensity of Barossa Valley Mataro – structure, texture and purity.

The Season:

The growing season was defined by a continuously warm to hot summer with no effective rainfall, wind and hail at flowering, and followed with three major frosts - resulting in an earlier and much smaller harvest than average.

These tough conditions produced smaller clusters of intensely dark berries with thick fleshy skins contrasted against brown mature stalks.

Whilst yields were down, once these vineyards were fermenting in our cellar the concentration of colour, tannin and aroma of the 2019 vintage was revealed.