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Entry Information
Exhibitor Sabella Vineyards
Show 2015
Class 30
Entry Number 30#6
Brand Sabella Vineyards
Wine Name Nero d'Avola
Vintage 2014
Origin Single Vineyard
Commercial Label Yes
Availability Street Adl, Rundle St, Adel
Judging Results
Medal / Award Silver
Judge 1 Dark fruit and dusty oak sweetness. A rich style with med+ acidity and gritty tannin. Good persistence. A more ambitious style.
Judge 2 Leather with hints of oak spice. Lovely roundness and length, tannins somewhat blocky but nice wine.
Judge 3 solid but a little chunky and overly tannic for fruit weight
Associate Judge perfumed violets/cedar oak, medium bodied, good intensity, dark frutis, bramble, spice, ripe oak tannin great length
Varietal: Nero d'Avola, GI: McLaren Vale, 100%
Clone MAT 1, Roostock: NONE - Own Roots, 100%
Soil Type Loam
Elevation 15 Metres above sea level
Planting Density 750 Vines / Ha
Planted 2010
Irrigation Dripper
Growing Method Conventional
Crop Yeild 2.00 Tonnes / Ha
Harvest Date 30 / Mar / 2014
Rainfall 330 (mm) Rainfall from July to June in the year(s) of harvest
Wine Making Information
Ferment Open Fermenter 100%
Maturation Small Format Oak 100%
Bottling Date 22 / Jun / 2015
Closure Screw
Cases Produced 168
Force Class False