This is our first release of Sparkling Malbec. The fruit is estate grown, and the wine is fermented and matured at Wandin Valley before being sent off for Tirage at Peterson’s Champagne House, also in the Hunter Valley. We seek to make a sophisticated, elegant sparkling red that really shows off the quality of our vineyard. Some winemaking notes follow;

The Malbec fruit was hand picked at 12.5 Baumé and fermented in open tanks. The wine was matured in a mixture of one and two year old French oak barriques for 12 months before tirage. After bottle fermentation the wine was then left to rest on its’ lees for almost 24 months. For the Malbec we are trialling a crown seal closure; this is as much for market response as for technical effect.

The generous maturation time on yeast lees has given this wine a greater level of complexity and texture. The wine is quite dry relative to the market (10 g/L residual sugar) in an attempt to highlight the quality of our fruit and to emphasise the effects of the extended maturation time. We are only disgorging 150 cases at a time, and trying to stagger the release of the remainder of the wines as much as demand will allow.

pH; 3.4
TA; 6.5 g/L
Alcohol; 12.5%
Residual Sugar; 10 g/L

Bottle price: was $30.00 now half price $15.00 RRP
Special case price: $180.00 RRP