Australian Rose

"Boasts attractive perfumes of rose petals and raspberries and then adds to this in the mouth with crisp apple and dried spice/leaf notes. Well balanced to boot." Sangiovese grapes, from Oatley family vineyards at Mudgee, are generously flavoured, producing a wine that is soft and dry, with juicy red fruit characters. This delicious wine cries out for an antipasto platter or a bucket of prawns. WINEMAKING NOTES: Produced specifically as a rosé wine by pressing the red sangiovese grapes as if to make a white wine, minimising the phenolics and retaining the bright clean fruit flavours. It has been deliberately made at the drier end of the...

2017 Rosé - one of the best. James Halliday 94 points. “Pale salmon-crimson. Bursting to impress on both the nose and in the mouth. Raspberries, strawberries, anise and dried spice, a cut of apple-like acidity ramping the freshness further. 100% Barossa Valley. 100% delicious. They could give a money-back guarantee on this and never have to refund a cent.” James Halliday. Wine Front 93 points. Surprised to see this hit the WF pages so late in the season, and, shock horror, a $1 increase on RRP! That buck is likely going into the ‘proper’ winemaking going on in this wine, or at least, the elevation in quality, and decrease in...