RockBare McLaren Vale Shiraz 2022

Sourced, like Rockbare's Grenache, from a single vineyard on the gentle eastern slopes of McLaren Vale. The vineyard first planted in 1992, produces distinct wines of place. Its unique high wire trellis system allows for good sun exposure to the fruit throughout the growing season and consistent access to the trunks, crucial for maintaining healthy vines.

The 2022 vintage was preceded by a cold, quite wet winter. Spring and summer were then very mild, only two hot days all summer. Picking in McLaren Vale was in the first week of March in beautiful cool autumn weather. The fruit was picked using a selective harvester in the early hours of the morning, before fermentation on skins in small open fermenters for two weeks. Malo lactic fermentation also took place in fermenter before the skins were pressed and the resulting wine put to barrel, seasoned French oak barriques and hogsheads for 12 months before bottling in October 2023.