2022 Red Robin Riesling 6 Pack

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 2021-22 vintage season had approximately 435mm rainfall, with the period December 2021 to harvest on 17 March 2022 providing less than 40 mm to our vineyard. Despite this our dry grown Henry Ely vineyard provided a 16.1 Tonne harvest. 7.1 tonne of the fruit was sold to Tim Adam Wines and the remainder was used in the making of our Red Robin Riesling.

Ripening period temperatures were largely moderate, with monthly averages of less than 30 degree C. The fruit was harvested in the early morning, (4.30am to 7.00am) the Riesling fruit entered the winery with cool of 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 grape pressing. 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 17th of January 2023.

WINE SPECIFICATIONS

Alcohol – 12.50%

Acid – 7.82g/L

pH – 2.88

Residual Sugars – 2.45g/L

Quantity – 5,390L

Cellaring – With care until 2035