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Entry Information
Exhibitor Chapel Hill
Show 2018
Class 24
Entry Number 24#17
Brand Chapel Hill
Wine Name McLaren Vale Mourvedre
Vintage 2017
Origin Single Vineyard
Commercial Label Yes
Availability Chapel Hill Cellar Door
Judging Results
Medal / Award Silver
Judge 1 some oak, dark fruit, gamey / meaty savoury, smokey / guaiacol (?) palate.
Judge 2 fresh lifted musk and redskin, brooding, rich and dense, some sangine flavours, big wine up front
Judge 3 Lifted spicy intense great intensity full rich palate but very okay on palate nice powdery tannin.
Associate Judge Sweet oak lift with a developed anisee waft. Fleshy fruit and some slippery juice, firm and long tannin, oak dust?..
Varietal: Mataro / Mourvèdre / Monastrell, GI: McLaren Vale, 100%
Clone Unknown, Roostock: NONE - Own Roots, 100%
Soil Type Clay,Loam,Limestone/Calcareous
Elevation 70 Metres above sea level
Planting Density 1750 Vines / Ha
Planted 2001
Irrigation Dripper
Growing Method Conventional Certificate: 0
Harvest Date 19 / Apr / 2017
Wine Making Information
Ferment Stainless Steel 100%
Maturation Small Format Oak 100%
Bottling Date 21 / Jun / 2018
Closure Screw
Cases Produced 348
Force Class False
Winemaker Note Michael Fragos, Bryn Richards