"A bold ripe fruit style with lots going on" Winestate Magazine
Soft on the palate with great length delivering a very satisfying array of flavours
Enjoy with grilled flat iron steak with blue cheese butter
Farm Hand Monash Valley Organic Merlot 2020 (Australia)
Farm Hand Monash Valley Organic Merlot 2020 (Australia)
Accolades
Awarded 4 Stars
Winestate Magazine, Aug 20
Awarded 90/100 Points & 4.5 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Oct 2020
Description
- French oak
- Black & red berry fruit
- Subtle vanilla
- Powerful acidity
"A bold ripe fruit style with lots going on. The primary fruit characters are layered with subtle oak and powerful acidity" Winestate Magazine, Aug 2020
"Pristine and beautifully lifted, the bouquet shows dark berry, violet and thyme characters with a hint of pepper spice. It's juicy and lingering with fleshy texture and fine tannins, offering delightful drinking" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Oct 2020
This a medium bodied Merlot with typical black and red berry fruit flavour, subtle cigar box and light vanilla. The wine is soft on the palate and has great length delivering a very satisfying array of flavours that will marry perfectly with many red meat dishes.
The moderate, dry climate with very low rainfall during autumn and fertile soils is perfect suited to Organic Viticulture. The well-established vines (up to thirty years of age) are planted widely apart for airflow to minimise disease pressure and minimal drip irrigation ensures low yielding fruit with rich flavours and varietal expressiveness.
2020 had its challenges with a dry start and only a small portion of rain and with much of the country suffering drought conditions. The warm dry spell continued in December with some extreme hot temperature days recorded. Thankfully due to one of the coolest January’s on record the vines were able to re-address the balance. It was a late ripening year and yields were down but despite the challenges it will be another excellent vintage across South Australia.
Fully de-stemmed before fermentation in a mix of open and closed tanks. The wine was primarily vinified without the influence of oak for maximum fruit expression before blending with a component aged in three and four-year-old French oak.
The Farm Hand wines are grown by the Grigoriou family, fourth generation wine growers, from almost one hundred acres of Organic Vineyards in the Monash Valley of South Australia.
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