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16¾/20
Juxtaposed Mr. Furley Pinot Meunier Rosé 2017
Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaThe pinot meunier for this year's rosé comes from Greenhill Vineyard, owned by Paul Henschke, one of Oz's top wine researchers. Wes was going to make tempranillo from Kangaroo Island in 2017, but there wasn't enough fruit from the very cool vintage. This meunier wasn't going to be ripe enough for a red wine, so it came available and Wes jumped. It was the last fruit harvested that year - quite a rarity for rosé. Crushed and destemmed on skins for six hours, this was basket pressed off, 200L was fermented on skins, and then added back to the whole where it fermented cool to dryness. No MLF, this bottled early like his whites. Finely delicate perfume leads to the finely delicate palate, with wild cherry, wild strawberry streamling along the slight palate. Effortless to enjoy this graceful rosé, copiously.Tasted: 27 August 2018Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:| Australia | $26.00 | 750ml | Australia |
Grape: Pinot Meunier
