"Delightfully fruited and elegant, delivering bright fruit intensity and silky texture" Wine Orbit
Exhibits an abundance of dark berry, spice, fine structure and long finish.
A great food wine, try with lamb shawarma or gyros and if you’re preparing these yourself, play with your spice rack to magnify the natural flavors in the Syrah of allspice, clove, and mint!
Mission Estate Vineyard Selection Martinborough Syrah 2016
Mission Estate Vineyard Selection Martinborough Syrah 2016
Accolades
Awarded 91/100 Points
Sam Kim Wine, Orbit, Dec 2017
Description
"Pristine and beautifully fragrant, the bouquet shows dark plum, cranberry and violet notes with subtle cedary complexity. The palate is delightfully fruited and elegant, delivering bright fruit intensity and silky texture, beautifully framed by supple tannins. At its best: now to 2021" Sam Kim Wine, Orbit, Dec 2017
The wine exhibits an abundance of dark berry, spice, mocha and floral aromas. The Gimblett Road portion contributes to the structure and sweet spice aromas. The palate is soft, showing dark berry, chocolate and spices with silky tannins giving a fine structure and long finish.
Gimblett gravels fruit was chosen off free draining gravel soils to produce this wine. Fruit thinning was employed to restrict crop loads and ensure good fruit maturity. The warm dry summer in 2016 ensured the fruit achieved good concentrated and ripe flavours. 58% of the fruit was off our Gimblett road vineyard. The fruit was fermented in small fermenters with the fermentation temperatures peaking at 30 degrees. There were daily pump overs that were stopped at the end of fermentation, after which there was a post fermentation maceration of up to three weeks depending on the vat and its development on the skins. Once the finished wine was pressed off the skins, we allowed the natural malo-lactic fermentation to soften acids and enhance mouth-feel. 50% of the wine was aged 13 months in French oak barriques. This superbly balanced wine will cellar for three to five years in ideal conditions
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