2021 Red Robin Riesling

Description

TASTING NOTES

Colour, Bouquet & Palate

Pale straw and Green tones, a very clean nose with classic Clare lime and lifted lemon blossom aromas. A perfectly balanced, delightful medium bodied dry Riesling with a refreshing acidity, alluring and complex mouth filling lemon and grapefruit citrus flavours with lingering palate length.

Food suggestions

This dry Riesling style with its refreshing acidity is the perfect food and wine accompaniment. It partners superbly with a wide range of food styles that benefit from a squeeze of lemon. Fish, crustaceans, chicken and spicy cuisine.

Viticulture: The Vineyard

All Riesling fruit is sourced from our boutique “Henry Ely” Vineyard, sited 420 metres above sea level at Penwortham in the heart of the Clare Valley.

The vineyard gently slopes to the West, tucked between two of the Valleys famous ranges. As a consequence the vineyard receives early shading from the afternoon summer sun adding the natural acidity and ripeness. The pH neutral, fertile soils have a mixture of Terra Rossa soils, sections of friable brown loam and patches of dark chocolate clay. Rainfall is naturally captured & stored into underground perched reef aquifers. Our totally dry grown fruit flourishes across all vintage seasons including periods of extended dry weather. The vineyard sits on a mixture of reef structures; sandstone, slate and limestone. Mid row, selected summer green weed growth is encouraged to reduce canopy temperatures during peak summer. The vines are hand pruned in winter and have a concentrated, summer hand pruning and canopy management regime to ensure fruit bunch protection from any flavour damaging peak summer, UV rays

Vinification & Maturation

The 2020-21 vintage season had much improved rainfall, with the period September to December 2020 providing some 200 mm to our vineyard. For the period from January to harvest on the 4th March 2021 the vineyard received 29 mm. Our dry grown Henry Ely vineyard provided a 9.71 Tonne harvest. Ripening period temperatures were largely moderate. The fruit was harvested in the early morning, (6.30am to 8.30am) the Riesling fruit entered the winery with cool day temperatures. The fruit processing commenced within 2 hours of harvest. The de-stemmed fruit was cooled to 4 degrees Celsius & stored in stainless steel. Free run juice was used without pressing providing 550 litres per tonne of grapes. The fruit was de-juiced, clarified & fermented over 2 weeks at a temperature of less than 14ºC. The wine was protein & cold stabilized with minimal sulphur dioxide added. The finished wine was bottled on the 23rd of August 2021.

WINE SPECIFICATIONS

Alcohol – 12.50%

Acid – 6.49g/L

pH – 2.94

Residual Sugars – 1.29g/L

Quantity – 5,400L

Cellaring – With care until 2032