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Entry Information
Exhibitor All Saints Estate
Show 2019
Class 21
Entry Number 21#11
Brand All Saints Estate
Wine Name Family Cellar Durif
Vintage 2015
Origin Single Vineyard
Commercial Label Yes
Availability All Saints Estate Cellar Door & All Saints Estate website
Judging Results
Medal / Award
Overall Score 81
Judge 1 Mid red, lashings of vanillin oak, porty and overoaked
Judge 2 Brick red hue. Aldehyde lets this wine down. Weight and structure seems in balance.
Judge 3 sweet spice, hot red fruit, VA, confectionary, lean and lacking spice to lift the sweet fruit.
Associate Judge deep red, slightly alcoholic and aged but good structure with balanced tannins.
Varietal: Durif, GI: Rutherglen, 100%
Clone Unknown, Roostock: Unknown, 100%
Soil Type Sand,Loam
Elevation 150 Metres above sea level
Planting Density 1666 Vines / Ha
Planted 1994
Irrigation Dripper
Growing Method Conventional
Harvest Date 20 / Mar / 2015
Wine Making Information
Ferment Open Fermenter 100%
Maturation Small Format Oak 100%
Bottling Date 18 / Oct / 2018
Closure Screw
Cases Produced 416
Force Class False
Winemaker Note Nick Brown, Chloe Earl