2020 Roux Beauté Roussanne
Our unique vineyard with its weathered sand and ironstone soil, starts this Roussanne’s journey towards being an extraordinary wine. Months mellowing on grape skins in large ceramic eggs ensure a wine of luxurious texture and distinctive flavour.
VINTAGE SUMMARY
The growing season was affected by a very hot spring, leading to the lowest yields on record. As the grapes started their ripening process the weather miraculously cooled to a very mild ripening season. This resulted in wonderful concentration of flavour, retention of natural acidity and brightness of fruit, but above all, beautiful finesse, and balanced tannins.
WINEMAKING
Hand-picked on the 14th of March from Block 6 (1.0 Ha), our oldest Roussanne planting. A portion is destemmed, crushed, and filled to 675L ceramic eggs. Fermented on skins, remaining on skins for 134 days before pressing. Only the free draining fraction retained. The other portion is whole bunch basket pressed into ceramic eggs and fermented without skins. The final blend was 55% extended skin batch and 45% without skins. The blend is exclusively matured in ceramic eggs. Bottled November 2020. Certified Organic/Biodynamic.
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