Vintage
2019
ABV
14%
Wine Type
Red
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
With incredible depth of colour, lifted aromas of dark berry fruits. Ripe fruit flavours and a structural tannin finish, this is an elegant but powerful Rutherglen Durif. A wine showing great finesse balanced with power. The fruit was destemmed and crushed into our old 7 tonne vat fermenters then inoculated with yeast for fermentation. Hand plunged three times a day during the early stages of fermentation, then reduced to two per day till the ferment was finished. Pressing was done using our 136 year old hand-cranked wooden basket press, this gentle press allows us to get all the wine but not over extract the tannins. Maturation was in 1 - 4 year old French oak barriques and puncheons for 22 months.
Winemaker's Bio
Nicholas Brown has lived and breathed wine his whole life, spending his childhood running around the cellars at his family winery. After school, he initially followed an interest in geological engineering before travelling and working in Europe for a few years. In 2003, Nick began a degree in oenology at the University of Adelaide. He worked in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia and and spent his holidays travelling and working in various French vineyards.
After completing his degree, he worked at Moss Wood in the Margaret River, Western Australia before moving back to All Saints Estate and St Leonards Vineyard to run the vineyard and continue the family winemaking tradition.
