Luna Estate Martinborough Rosé 2020

Description

• Dry style
• Red apple & cherry
• Pink grapefruit
• Crisp acidity

"Delicious scents of roses and cherries, red wine gums and apple. On the palate - fruity, fresh, vibrant and textured. Flavours of red apple and cherry, peach tea and rose water. There are super fine fruit tannins and plenty of acidity together adding a crisp and refreshing, quietly salivating texture. Balanced, well made and ready" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Jan 2021

Full to the brim with very electric tones. Candyfloss, watermelon and pink grapefruit aromas lead to a wine that's tangy, fresh and delicious! Lots of berry flavours pop across the palate, it's plenty of fun in the glass!

A blend of Pinot Meunier and Mariafeld grown and harvested at the Blue Rock Vineyard. Whole bunch pressed with the free run and light pressed juice sent to tank for a long cool fermentation. Harder pressed, darker coloured juice sent to seasoned barrels for fermentation. Wine is kept in contact with the ferment lees for three months before blending and light filtration prior to bottling in the spring to capture and preserve freshness. No animal products used in the production of this wine.

From the start of the 2019/2020 growing season things looked promising! Great, even bud burst with only a few relatively minor frost events. We went into this critical part of the season in the best shape yet in terms of our organic regime, with full undervine cultivation completed along with extensive spring inter-row cropping to ensure the vines had the best possible start. Conditions through spring were relatively normal; plenty of wind, some rain but not too much! With a classic Martinborough North West/South West flow. Flowering was very successful and a good sized crop was on the cards! The ripening season was long and dry but not overly hot. If one had to make any complaint at all it may have been that it was perhaps a little too dry! As we practice dry farming there was definitely signs of water stress in the canopy across some of the blocks. Welcome rain arrived just after the start of harvest but in the main conditions for picking were excellent and we had the rare pleasure of picking exactly when we wanted too! I feel strongly that 2020 will go down in the books as a great vintage for Martinborough.

Food Pairing: Pair with a side of salmon & seasonal salad or treat yourself to a glass with strawberries & fresh cream.