Description
‘”Pete and his partner Magali Gely operate what I think is the best new wave of small scale Barossa wine companies to emerge at the beginning of the 21st century. These weren’t big, blockbuster, showy wines designed to impress. They were wines that managed to take the best of the Barossa’s sometimes forgotten varietal traditions and fuse them onto a very European flavour sensibility. ” Max Allen. The future makers.
“It seems that Spinifex wines can do no wrong.” Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front.
A classic style rose with subtle and discreet aromatics of raspberry, rose petals, strawberries, quince and savoury spice. The palate is bone dry with flavours ranging through cherry, red currents, savouriness and a refreshing dryness from acidity and fine tannins. The blend this year is 40% Grenache, 19% Cinsault, 19% Shiraz, 16% Mataro and 6% Ugni blanc. The fruit is handpicked from a range of vineyards up to 100 years of age. The wine ferments via indigenous yeasts and is matured on lees prior to bottling. Pete Schell selects fruit for his rose wines in the vineyard. his pink wines aren ‘t cobbled together from any old left over fruit. The 2014 vintage produced wines of lower alcohol (12.5% rather than the typical 13, 13.5%) so Schell used portions of Shiraz in this year ‘s blend to add flesh. He also fine tuned the maturation with partial malolactic (35%) for added texture and bottled early 6 weeks earlier than normal to preserve the wine ‘s aromas. Approximately 10% was matured in wood. The result is a wine of lifted, red berry, floral and grenadine fragrance, thirst slaking freshness and terrific depth. An Australian benchmark.
RRP $28
