STONE PADDOCK BY PARITUA SYRAH 2022

Wine Notes

An aroma of sweet dark plum, white pepper and five spice, with notes of cola bean and blueberry. The palate is velvety soft, has ripe fleshy fruit flavours of plum and blueberry, hints of baked fruit tart, five spice, white pepper and a sweet vanillan oak. The finish is firm with fine ripe tannins and long spicy prune and liquorice flavours. A bright, food friendly wine, with spicy notes. Food match: Suckling pig, spit roasted meats, sashimi, eggplant based dishes.

Vineyard

Several clones of Syrah are grown in our Triangle Vineyard. Soils are stony river gravels with a silty loam cover. The loam top layer varies in depth from 50cm deep to being completely absent. This causes some variation in ripening, with the silty areas producing slightly higher degrees of pepper notes and the stones providing the riper floral spectrum. Fruit thinning is essential and the canopy is fastidiously managed to allow good sunlight and aeration.

Winemaking

Whole bunch fruit was de-stemmed and partially crushed to tank. Fermentation was preceded by a period of cold soaking. Fermentation temperatures reached 30°C and daily cap management varied from two to four pump-overs a day. The wine is pressed on taste and transferred to barrel for Malo-lactic conversion. Barrel maturation is in French Oak barriques for 12 months of which 20% is new. This wine recieved a light fining and filtration before bottling.

Best Drinking

this wine will benefit from cellaring.