Toi Toi 'Sara's' Marlborough Rosé 2019

Description

• Dry style
• Fresh raspberries
• Nectarine
• Apple

"Bright and fabulously aromatic, the bouquet shows raspberry, nectarine, apple and white floral aromas, leading to a juicy palate that is finely textured and persistent. It’s youthfully attractive and refreshing, offering gorgeous drinking" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Nov 2019

The 2019 vintage is bright and fabulously aromatic, the bouquet shows raspberry, nectarine, apple and white floral aromas, leading to a juicy palate that is finely textured and persistent.

The 2019 vintage will be remembered as one of the warmest on record, with harvest starting roughly 10 days earlier than the long term average. With healthy vines and strong canopies, the warm weather did not impact the harvest quality, simply an unprecedented early season. Sugar levels accumulated quickly in the warm weather and our parcels ripened at different times, so “picking on flavour was key” said winemaker Tim Adams.

Like many of the Marlborough producers, poor flowering in general around the valley resulted in a lower crop, in most cases. Fortunately, Toi Toi’s regional diversity and well timed harvest minimised the impact and resulted in exceptional flavour of fruit. Grapes were picked when the flavours were at optimum, to ensure the fruit flavours were preserved in the wine. Winemakers used a select de-stemmer harvester to softly handle the fruit. Once pressed off skins, the juice was then fermented at low temperatures in stainless steel tanks with selected yeast strains to preserve the inherent delicate fruit flavours.

Food Pairing: We recommend this bright and lively Rose to be pair with a prawn poke bowl with chilli lime dressed edamame beans over a wasabi avocado cream.