2021 Tscharke Maranaga Stone Well Single Vineyard Grenache 750ml

Wine Details

Vintage: 2021

Type: Red Wine

Variety: Grenache

Vegan Friendly

Organic Wine

Volume: 750ml

Alcohol Volume:15%

PH: 3.39

Standard Drinks: 8.9

Acidity: 5.8 g/L

Closure: ScrewCap

Vintage Notes

Deep soaking winter rains that trickled into spring provided a spectacular start to the growing season. The moist soils minimised the threat of frosts, followed with a mild spring at bud break made for a promising start to an incredible vintage. Despite its dryness, the growing season was relatively mild. Warm days, cool nights and little to no disease pressure gave rise to fruit rich in flavour and naturally high acid, all with relatively modest sugar levels. The wines produced from 2021 will drink well young and many, if allowed, will cellar well to remind us of the great vintage. One of the best vintages in the recent decade.

Winemaking

Hand harvested on the 15th of March. The fruit was fully destemmed into open concrete fermenters and allowed to macerate for 48 hours before inoculation. The ferment was allowed to naturally warm up to over 30°C, before being. The cap was managed by hand twice to three times daily to extract as much structure as possible from the skins. Once dry, free run and pressing were transferred into a tank to complete MLF.

In early May the wine was lightly sulphured and transferred with fine lees to terracotta amphorae, where it élevaged for 13 months, with regular bâtonnage, before being racked and bottled.

Tasting Notes

A beautiful semi-translucent ruby red.

Explosive bouquet of red fruit and floral. This Grenache offers the most seductive combination of cherry, red plum, ripe strawberry and savoury elements of rhubarb, dried woody herbs, botanicals and earth. There is so much to discover before even taking the first sip. In its incredible elegance, this wine is generous and powerful.

The palate opens to juicy are ripe red berries notes and develops into a more savoury mid to back-palate. Notes of maraschino cherry, woody spice, white pepper and red earth carry the wine to the most beautiful, long finish. This wine’s balance is something else…fruit sweetness, fresh acidity, firm grape skin tannins, and mid-palate texture play harmoniously and keep the wine dancing on the taste buds.

Decant and enjoy now, or cellar away.