Single Vineyard Rosé 2022
SATSUMA PLUM • BLOOD ORANGE • WILD STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE
The immensely popular Single Vineyard Rosé is finally back! This vintage is delicate pink and truly delicious. Blended from Shiraz and Cabernet, bone dry with great juiciness; a lovely rich pink hue; aromas of strawberry, raspberries and cream, pink carnations, rose petals; palate of wild raspberries, strawberry shortcake, red currants, rose water. 750ml.
Accolades
92 points, Wine Pilot
"This is a Shiraz Cabernet blend. I love the fruit texture and suggestion of sweetness with its trace of watermelon and cranberry with nice palate creaminess. The natural acidity sits in the background to add precision and life through the palate. This is a lovely current drinking wine, previously only available at the cellar door, so check out your local for it."
90 points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Halliday Top 5 Star Winery
Halliday defines top five-stars as "Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity"
Appearance: palest of pink hues; salmon; brilliant
Aroma: strawberry, raspberries and cream, pink carnations, rose petals; hint of fresh herbs, intense, powerful, seductive
Palate: wild raspberries, strawberry shortcake, red currants, rose water; juicy and delicious with a fine sappiness; great fresh palate with plush weight; bone dry with no sugar, it has plenty of fruit sweetness and is long and complex
Cool wet winter with a very high rainfall followed by a warm to hot and dry summer. The vines grew quickly developing excellent canopies. Delayed bud burst which affected flowering and gave lower yields. Good tannin ripeness (physiological ripeness) with deep colours in red grapes. Whites and rosé had very complex aromatics and flavours with bright acidities. This was a cool vintage which allowed slow development of complex characters and beautiful acidities within the grapes.
Juice is captured by two methods: saignee (bleed off) of juice from the crusher as the red grapes are processed and also by whole bunch pressing of fruit grown just for this rosé. The juice was cool fermented with aromatic yeast, aged two months on lees, and bottled in June. A good volume was made this year as we sold out of the 2021 vintage before Christmas last year. Perfect by the glass or by the bottle, this is Duke's most widely found wine. It is designed to be easily accessible, juicy, and delicious, immediately drinking well on release and all year round.
- Vintage 2021
- Alcohol 12.5%
- Vineyard 100% Estate Grown
- Varietal Rosé
- Bottling date June 2022
- Region Great Southern, Western Australia
- Sub-region Porongurup
- Residual sugar 1.0 g/l
- pH 3.35
- Acidity 5.6 g/l
