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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
Judge 1 Mid red, lashings of vanillin oak, porty and overoaked
Judge 2 sweet spice, hot red fruit, VA, confectionary, lean and lacking spice to lift the sweet fruit.
Judge 3 Brick red hue. Aldehyde lets this wine down. Weight and structure seems in balance.
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