12x Berton Vineyards Foundstone Shiraz 2018
Gold Medal Winning Shiraz From International Multi Award Winning Producer
Why to buy
- Previous Vintage International Gold Medal Winner
- Label 93 Point Rated Wine Showcase
- International Multi Award Winning Producer
- 4.5 Star Rated Winery James Halliday Wine Companion
Tasting Notes
This Shiraz offers an abundance of expressive aromas, predominantly of blackberry and plums along with toasty sweet oak. A generous and concentrated palate offers flavours of blackberry, black cherry and plum. Complex oak characters of coffee, vanilla and caramel complement the full fruit flavours and create a long rich and satisfying finish.
Technical Notes
Our local reds began with Shiraz comic in on 17th March, rather late compared to the last 8-10 years. With the latest of the vintage, growers found it hard to reach the desired sugar specifications however with cooler conditions looming, the decision was made to pick on fruit and seed ripeness on a parcel by parcel basis, ensuring the best possible quality was maintained. The saw is apply almost double our normal attention, requiring higher turnover regimes to aid colour stabilisation and tannin extraction kit of the skins whilst maintaining the desired characters.
The parcels were fermented separately in stainless steel potters for 4-6 days between 26 and 30 degrees and pumped over onto premium French toasted and untoasted oak chips. The wine was then pressed off skins at 1 brume and left to ferment until dry, then racked onto French oak staves and inoculated with malolactic bacteria. After MLF was complete the wine was then clarified, the best parcels were selected and blended.
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