Samuels Gorge Grenache 2022

Sourced from five different old vine vineyards, up to eighty years old, spread across McLaren Vale, two of which are located in the sub-region of Blewitt Springs, resulting in a complex layered Grenache. The fruit is handpicked and undergoes a pre-ferment cold soak. Wild fermented in two tonne open fermenters with twenty percent of the fruit left as whole bunches. The wine is pumped over twice daily during ferment with one punch down during the middle of the ferment. After two and a half weeks on skins when dry, the wine is basket pressed to barrel on full lees. Elevage for twelve months, no new oak, all three to four year old French and a mixture of 3500L large format and barrique. The wine then spends four months in stainless steel to maintain freshness and come together before being bottled.