RockBare McLaren Vale Shiraz 2020

The RockBare Shiraz is a regional blend, grown predominately from the cooler north-eastern end of McLaren Vale. Their winemaking philosophy is to showcase varietal integrity, brightness of fruit, while capturing depth of flavour and supported with fine tannins.

Select blocks in the NE corner of McLaren Vale were harvested over the 14-18th of March. Harvest 2020 was low yielding but of high quality. This end of McLaren Vale is slightly cooler, has sandier soils, and produces more blue- fruited, perfumed and elegant wines. Fermentation was started in stainless steel open fermenters; letting the ferment warm itself to 28˚C; and then bringing it back to a nice cool long ferment of 12 days at 22˚C; retaining those pretty aromatics. Gently pressing of the parcels off of their skins was achieved through an airbag press. Following malolactic fermentation, the wine was sent for maturation in older French and American oak hogsheads, and some seasoned large format French oak vats for 15 months prior to preparation for bottling.