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$45
Dark brooding meaty palate followed with perfume over licorice and just the faintest whiff of reduction. The spice and pepper thing is happening. Elegant yet rich this will give more with time. The tannins silky and fine with again that slight, cleansing grip from stalks. Showing great harmony. Chuck it in a decanter.
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“I started Dappled in 2009 with a view to make high quality, unadulterated wines from special patches of dirt at realistic prices. I make these wines first and foremost for my family and friends, so a hand-crafted, minimal intervention philosophy just makes perfect sense to me.”
Shaun Crinion
Sourced from the Peirce Family vineyard in Steels Creek at the base of the Kinglake range. It’s a warm site with hungry mudstone and shale soils with a granitic bedrock base and some scattered quartz. The vines are own rooted and planted in 1990.
Hand-picked and sorted, cooled overnight and gently placed into 1 tonne fermenters as 100% whole bunches. The fruit is locked up for two weeks to start a natural carbonique ferment for 2 weeks with no working at all… after which time the fruit is pigéaged (foot stomped) once a week for a further 5 weeks. The must is then pressed straight to a very old puncheon with all lees – and not touched until May the following year. It’s then that the wine gets racked straight to its bottling tank and is bottled by hand via gravity. Unfined and unfiltered.
Dappled makes wine in Victoria with fruit coming from vineyards in the Yarra Valley.
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