Upper Tintara Vineyard Shiraz 2018 Cellar Release
$38.00
Sourced from millennium plantings on the Hardy family Vineyard, this wine is a contemporary style of McLaren Vale or – more specifically – Blewitt Springs Shiraz. Being more elevated and cooler than the Vale floor gives the wines from the Upper Tintara Vineyard high levels of natural acidity, great freshness, and bright lively colour.
Following harvest, the fruit was de-stemmed and crushed into Potter heading-down board fermenters. The must was inoculated with a chosen yeast strain and, once per day, the fermenting juice was drained to another tank, before being pumped back, re-floating the cap of skins, gently extracting colour, tannin and flavour. The wine was drained off and the skins bag-pressed before the combined wine was transferred to French Oak – second fill barriques and three new hogsheads. The wine spent eighteen months maturing in oak before bottling with minimal filtration.
