2019 Syrah | Single Vineyard “Fin de la Terre” Yarra Valley
2019 Syrah | Single Vineyard “Fin de la Terre” Yarra Valley
Sourced from the Peirce Family vineyard in Steels Creek at the base of the Kinglake range. It’s a warm site with hungry mudstone and shale soils with a granitic bedrock base and some scattered quartz. The vines are own rooted and planted in 1990.
Tasting Notes
Initially the nose is all charry and savoury with black olive, herbs and spice.. With air even a decant the wine explodes with beautiful sweet Strawberry fruits, black cherry liquor aromas over floral’s and fresh baked pastry. The pallet is refined and sumptuous think black fruit’s strewn with herbs and spice… Tannins are fine but coiled awash with briny olives. For lovers of cool climate Shiraz that brims with complexity.
Winemaking
Hand-picked and sorted, cooled overnight and gently placed into 1 tonne fermenters as 100% whole bunches. The fruit is locked up for two weeks to start a natural carbonique ferment for 2 weeks with no working at all… after which time the fruit is pigéaged (foot stomped) once a week for a further 5 weeks. The must is then pressed straight to a very old puncheon with all lees - and not touched until May the following year. It’s then that the wine gets racked straight to its bottling tank and is bottled by hand via gravity. Unfined and unfiltered.