** SOLD OUT ** 2022 Syrah | Single Vineyard “Fin de la Terre” Yarra Valley
** SOLD OUT ** 2022 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
100% whole bunch wild yeast and matured in old oak this Steels Creek Syrah is a medium bodied, spice laden wine. Blue fruits, fresh herbs and smoked charcuterie all marry seamlessly together. The palate is flavoursome and not at all tannic, but more textured with a slatey type feel that is intertwined with more spiced blue fruits - finishing light and airy. This wine could even work well slightly chilled on a summers day.
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.