Framingham F Series Marlborough Rosé 2024

Description

Dry, Floral, Plum

"Floral, lifted and inviting bouquet of fresh raspberry and cherry flesh, there’s a mineral floral and lees quality layering complexity and style. Dry, crunchy, fruity and delicious on the palate. Flavours of red berries and plum, roses and mineral with a fine frame of tannins and plenty of acidity for freshness and length. Well made, ready to drink with best drinking from 2025 through 2028" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier

"Light peach colour. Gently floral with watermelon and light berry flavours on a finely detailed, refreshing and acid-driven palate. There is ample concentration to the delicate floral and fruit flavours with fine, chalky phenolics which finish tapered and savoury. Long, lingering and quite a sophisticated, modern, dry Rosé" Stephen Wong, The Real Review, Dec 2024

Grapes for 2024 F-Series Estate Rose were harvested from organically grown vines at the back of the winery. Soils here are of the old riverbed type; fist sized stones composed of greywacke (a hard, dark type of sandstone laced with quartz and feldspar), mixed alluvial gravel and silt. Pinot Noir 60% Montepulciano 40% were the varieties used to make up this blend.

Fruit is all hand harvested then whole bunch pressed. Parcels were fermented in a variety of seasoned oak 60% and stainless-steel vessels 40% which underwent wild fermentation. Partial Malolactic fermentation was carried out. The wine spent 6 months on fermentation lees prior to being blended and bottled with minimal fining.