A hallmark of the Utopos Vineyard on Roennfeldt Road is the pitch perfect acid/ tannin balance we can achieve in fully ripened fruit. This provides for delicious, highly approachable wines in their youth, whilst enabling them to develop over a 10-15 year period, and maybe more. A hallmark of the Utopos Vineyard on Roennfeldt Road is the pitch perfect acid/ tannin balance we can achieve in fully ripened fruit. This provides for delicious, highly approachable wines in their youth, whilst enabling them to develop over a 10-15 year period, and maybe more. The 2023 growing season saw another winter and spring with great rainfalls, setting the vineyards up with high soil moisture to sustain them through the typically warm and dry summer. The ’23 summer was actually quite mild with very few days above 35 degrees celsius. This led to slow and even ripening with harvest occurring in early April. The typical low yields and sparse canopies saw Utopos sail through the late summer rains with no disease pressures to speak of.
93/7% Grenache/Mataro off 25 year-old vines, destemmed with some whole berries. Aged for 8 months in 20% new French oak puncheons. Bright red purple in the glass with aromas of juicy plum, red cherry and Mulberry. Hallmark Exotic spices and tobacco drive the aromatic with dried meats and worked earth complexing the palate. Tannins are fine and tight with a fresh and clean acidity giving the wine tone.
