2023 - Valentine - Chenin BlancDirect Press Chenin Blanc Ginos Block, Swan Valley 595 Bottles Made This wines namesake, Charles and Alicias handsome son Valentine in now a toddler, so, most of the time is a little angel, but he also occasionally lets the devil loose Chenin grown from the rehabilitated vines on our little block in the Swan Valley. Picked on the fourth weekend of January 2023. Pressed to stainless and fermented for three weeks and then transferred to five seasoned

a deeper hum of fruit

In December we tasted through all of the barriques and chose portions from four of the five barriques to make up a 400L blend

75% Merlot/2

Sexy and sleak

Flottaison is the process of submerging whole berries/bunches of one pick into the fermenting juice of another pick – thereby producing an anaerobic enviromment for the submerged portion to undergo carbonic maceration in whilst also allowing the sharing of characters between the juice and the submerged fruit

bitter red cherry and olive tapenade

As a blending component

is a trusted source given my history with Riesling grown by Lee

‘Real fucking good’ is a succinct (and slightly drunken) note taken from our time tasting the wine in the warehouse

it tasted delightful throughout

slippery plum skin tannin

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