Gamay Adelaide Hills 2024

An intense and perfumed Gamay that highlights the variety's suitability for the Adelaide Hills. Within its deep fuchsia hue, raspberry and cranberry aromas compete for your attention alongside earthy, gamey notes, dried herbs and peppery spice on the finish. A short maceration on 100% whole bunches, followed by maturation in amphora, enhances the minerality and preserves the wine’s freshness.

The 2024 Gamay was 100% sourced from a single vineyard in Hope Forest, right at the southern end of the Adelaide Hills. Planted in the early 2000's, the vineyard is one of the older plantings of Gamay in the Adelaide Hills region. Organically managed for a few years now, the vines are situated on a west facing slope where the soils are clay loam over sandstone, enhancing aromatics and structure through good drainage. Harvested by hand at optimum ripeness, the variety dealt well with the challenging conditions provided by the 2024 vintage.

Harvested by hand throughout the morning, the grapes were tipped directly into a fermenter for carbonic maceration. Fermented with wild yeasts, after a week of fermentation, the grapes were foot-stomped, then pressed off the skins the following morning and transferred into amphora to finish both the primary fermentation and malolactic fermentation. The wines were racked from amphora to bottle.

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