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The Home Block Petit Verdot is a product of the specialness of the terrior of the rolling hills surrounding the township of Rowland Flat. The wine is specific to the area and shows the vintage variations of location specific wines.
The longer Australian summers allow the variety to achieve a ripeness not usually achievable in many other countries. This fullness of ripening allows the grapes to produce flavours that make this wine a truly sensory experience. The wine is aged for around twelve months in Hungarian and French oak hogsheads and shows a style with distinctive aromatic bouquet, deep rich colour and subtlety of flavour which lingers on the after palate.
A multiple medal winner, Winestate Magazine's 'Best of Variety', Decanter Magazine Wine of the Month Award Winner and Wine Traveller Top 100 Release Award, this wine is something special from the Barossa.
The Petit Verdot is traditionally close to the last of the Red varieties picked in the Barossa. The variety in Australia produces a style unlike any made in other places of the world due to the ability to enjoy a long ripening period and to fully develop the concentration of flavors unique to this variety. The 2004 vintage was one of a long hot summer days which allowed the Petit Verdot to really concentrate the flavors of this now outstanding Barossa Style... James Halliday in his 2007 Australian Wine Companion wrote ‘The variety is definitely suited to the Barossa Valley’. The grapes were picked mid April and had a lengthy fermentation on skins to enhance the distinctive aromatic bouquet, deep rich color and subtlety of lingering palate flavors. The wine was then aged in Hungarian and French oak Hogsheads for 12 months prior to bottling and will cellar for many years to come.
THE VINEYARD
Situated in Australia’s best known and most prestigious wine growing region, the Barossa Valley
in South Australia about 60km north of Adelaide. The Eighteenfortyseven Vineyards are located
in Rowland Flat, a small township between Lyndoch and Tanunda, named after the Surveyor
Henry Rowland who charted much of the Barossa in the mid 1800’s. Within 10 years of the first
immigrant settlers venturing into the Barossa the land grant was given for the ‘1847’ property.
The wines of ‘1847’ are produced from grapes grown in vineyards located in and adjacent to
the Rowland Flat Township.The soils of the area are of mainly Terra Rossa which comprises red
brown sandy loams mostly overlaying a limestone base. The Township is approx 190 m above
sea level, about 40km inland from the coast with an average rainfall of about 500 – 550 mm.
The Petit Verdot grapes are grown on our Rowland Flat vineyards with various shaded and
full sun locations to allow for a balance in style and maturity. This reflects in this emerging
Barossa Classic.
WINEMAKING
The Home Block Petit Verdot was picked on 15th April after an ideal long even ripening period.
The warm to hot days were contrasted with cooler nights which allowed for a developed balance
of fruit flavors and good beaume (brix) and acid levels. The grapes were open fermented prior
to pressing, racking and ageing in both French and Hungarian oak Hogsheads. The wine was
aged in those Hogsheads (300 Litre casks) for 12 months prior to bottling in May 2006. The
wine was racked during its aging and has not been filtered.
TASTING NOTES
A wine of tremendous color and flavor with a delightful pronounced floral bouquet. This fruit
on both the bouquet and the palate makes for a big rounded wine with a good length of
palate and a clean lingering finish. A wine which although drinking well now will undoubtedly
be suited for some further ageing. Good fruit flavors, nice balanced oak and a wine to be
remembered and talked about.%
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Region : Barossa Valley, South Australia.
Variety : Petit Verdot
Sugar at picking: 13.9 Beaume
Closure : Cork or Stelvin
Alcohol : 14.4%
Bottle Barcode : 9333410000034
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