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Basso Garnacha 2019

The idea for an early-release, low-sulphur, unfiltered Grenache had been bubbling away for a few years and in 2017 access to the right fruit from a dry-grown vineyard, sparked the Basso project into life. From the Latin Bassus, meaning low, Basso is low in additions and speaks clearly of the place from which it comes.

Lighter, warm-climate red wines based on Grenache particularly from McLaren Vale have a growing place on the tables of Australian diners. Youthful and flavoursome wines that match where and how we live and the food we love to make and eat.

VINTAGE

A winemaker’s vintage with every scrap of experience tested and measured. Lower than average winter rainfall set up for a dry growing season resulting in dramatically reduced yields. The Adelaide Hills was most effected with some varieties down by 50%. In low yield years acidity is generally good setting the resulting wines up for stability and long lives.

WINEMAKING

FOR THE SENSES

CELLARING

Perfect now but will happily hang around for five years, maybe longer.

SERVING

Chicken or pork shaslik cooked over coals with a tomato and pomegranate salad.

Variety 100% Grenache Noir /Garnacha Tinta/ Garnaxa/ Cannonau

Varietal Origin Sardinia or Spain; an ancient variety with origins that are hotly contested.

Vineyard McLaren Vale

Process Hand harvested at 14 Baume, free run juice with minimal pressings, malolactic fermentation in stainless steel elevage in 4600L French oak vats for nine months, racked and sent to bottle without filtration, 26 parts per million total sulphur at bottling, 2400 cases produced.

Alcohol 14%

Ph 3.65

TA 5.4

Flavour Profile Primary red fruit aromas, backed up by cassia bark, star anise, white pepper and strangely gamay-like florals (no whole bunch used). The palate is loaded with musk and sherbet and those primary red fruit flavours follow through.

Structure & Texture Youthful, light to medium bodied and layered, with a long, salivating finish bolstered by sandy tannins.