Wine Note A deliciously intense wine with complex blackberry, chocolate and pepper spice flavours, soft approachable tannins and a smooth lingering finish. Try with venison and a port wine sauce. Fruit 100% Gimblett Gravel's Syrah Harvest The grapes for the Aspire Syrah 2004 were hand harvested after a warm summer in individual batches between the 6th and the 15th of April 2004. Vinification The grapes were hand harvested and then destemmed and gently crushed into fermentation vessels. Some vessels were open top fermenters so the ferments were gently plunged four times a day, otherwise they were pumped over three times per day at the height of fermentation. After 2 days of soaking to extract colour and flavour from the skins the must was inoculated with a selected yeast. After fermentation the wine stayed on skins for another 10 days before being pressed out and inoculated for malolactic fermentation. Post malolactic the wine was put to barrel for 13 months and during this time was racked 4 times. Prior to bottling the wine was lightly fined with egg whites and filtered. Composition 100% Matariki’s Gimblett Gravels Vineyard. Barrel Percentage 100% French oak with 20% new and 80% seasoned barriques. Bottling The Aspire Syrah was bottled on the 16th August 2005. Sensory Deep red colour with purple hues. Cellaring Drink now until 2008 |
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