Description
Tarrawarra Estate barbera
Ripe flavours and good balance, Structure and flavour intensity, full flavoured, rich and long cedar and cherries
HUON HOOKE Gourmet Traveller Wine – 100 Top New Release Wines, Aug/Sept 2018
This is an effortless, authentic tasting barbera (2017) with raspberry, potpourri and Asian spice aromas. The palate is medium-bodied, soft and fine wth lots of varietal raspberry and loads of charm. The acidity, often said to be high in barbera, is beautifully balanced. 95/100
HUON HOOKE The Real Review, Feb.29, 2020
2018 The colour is deep red-purple colour and it smells sweetly, charmingly cherry-like while the palate is medium-bodied and backed by light but reasonably firm tannins. Straightforward, with a fruit-sweet core and plenty of flavour and presence, it’s a lovely wine that will grow on you the more you sip it.
Site Selection: A long north-west facing block with clay loam soils. The block has long produced grapes with subtle flavours and firm structure which is well suited to this clone of Barbera and the preferred style for TarraWarra Estate.
WINEMAKING
Skin contact time: 27 days Yeast type: Natural ferment
Fermentation time: Six days Malo-lactic ferment: 100%
PH: 3.50 TA: 5.9 g/L
Fermented in open format, (4000L) and matured over 18 months in French
Oak puncheon (500L) and barrique (225L) (20% new barriques
