Description
Spinifex’s provençal-styled rosé sits among the best this country has to offer, and the 2023 is another stellar release. This year, the blend comprises Grenache (37%), Mataro (36%) and Cinsault (27%) sourced from three dry-grown sites in Angaston, Ebenezer and the southern end of the Bethany foothills. Soils vary across the sites from gravelly sand to red clay, and vine age can range from 25 to 90 years, with the Cinsault being the oldest component of the blend. The (predominantly) bush vines are dry-grown.
Each batch spent four to six hours on skins before being pressed to tank for fermentation―a small portion went to seasoned oak to build texture and complexity. The wine matured on lees in tank for six months before being bottled. The resulting wine offers the kind of energy and snappy, crunchy lines that were once the exclusive domaine of only the finest Provence rosés. It’s brimming with summer berries, spring flowers, bright, ripe citrus fruits and more savoury touches of earth and spice. Full, pure flavoured and vinous with great width and length through the palate, it ticks all the boxes and then some.
94 points, Dave Brookes for Halliday Wine Companion ““Another delicious rosé from the fine folks at Spinifex; 37% grenache, 36% mataro and 27% cinsault. Light salmon pink with aromas of raspberry, redcurrant, watermelon and ruby red grapefruit. Hints of freshly cut fennel, blood orange, soft spice, almond paste, wildflowers and stone. Just a slide of phenolic texture before the wine sails off, focused and briny, with a wash of lightly spiced red fruits and stone. Savoury and moreish.”
92 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front “You get some earth and spice notes here and the general impression is of savoury dryness, though raspberry, watermelon, grapefruit and citrus characters keep an impression of fruit ticking over. This is pale, dry and more-ish; it presents exactly as you’d hope it to.”
RRP $32 Our Price $26.99
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