Babydoll Marlborough Rosé 2022

Description

• Dry style
• Red apple
• Strawberries
• Lively & juicy

This pretty, light-peach coloured Rosé has a fresh and enticing bouquet of red apple, cherry, and strawberries. A lively and juicy palate with flavours of red berries and a focused and well-balanced acidity.

Vintage 2022 was an exciting classic Marlborough vintage. A warm Spring secured good fruit set throughout the region. Some challenging weather in February was balanced with clear warm days throughout harvest. The cool crisp nights and warm days in March retained vibrant acidity while allowing flavours to develop fully. Hawkes Bay growing season started off warm, providing ideal conditions for great fruit set, which showed promise of a bountiful vintage. However, an unusually wet February, increased disease pressure across some of the early ripening varieties. Thankfully, drier conditions throughout March allowed later ripening varieties, the conditions to be able to remain on the vines to ripen.The resulting wine is showing wonderful fruit concentration, with underlying purity and minerality.

Individual parcels of fruit were harvested over a period of 4 weeks. The fruit was destemmed and gently pressed, then left to settle in tank for 48 hours. It was then racked prior to a long, cool fermentation to capture the bright, fresh fruit characters. The individual parcels were then blended to add complexity and a pink hue, then stabilised and filtered prior to bottling.

Food Pairing: Beautiful with light summer salads, a creamy goats cheese, or your favourite shellfish.