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Gladstone Auld Alliance 2004 |
| Produced By
Gladstone Vineyard |
| Wine Description |
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This stylish wine has great Merlot characteristics, with soft integrated fruit and oak tannins. It has soft flavours of fruit cake and ripe plum with underlying spicy berry characteristics. The soft tannins and alcohol in the wine will give it good ageing potential. This is a well balanced wine which will partner food well. |
| Winemakers Notes |
The “Auld Alliance” is the premier Bordeaux style wine from Gladstone Vineyard, made by a Scottish woman winemaker with French grape varieties. Scotland’s most famous connection with Europe was the Auld Alliance with France. First agreed in 1295/96 it was built on Scotland and France’s shared need to curtail English expansion. Not simply a military alliance, it was based on a long-established friendship founded on the Scots’ love of French wines.
This Gladstone 2004 “Auld Alliance” is a blend from our finest barrels of wine, with 86% Merlot and 14% Cabernet Franc. All the fruit was grown on our own estate Vineyards, and was hand harvested.
The grapes were fermented in small batches with varying yeasts in open vats. All the batches were inoculated for malolactic fermentation just after the alcoholic fermentation started. The batches were pressed, free run wine was kept separate from pressings, and the malolactic fermentation was completed in barrels. The wine was aged in mixed age oak barrels for 12 - 18 months. At blending, all barrels of wine were tasted and assessed to achieve this premium blend.
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| Technical Details |
| WineMaker:
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Christine Kernohan/Gerhard Smith |
| Vintage: |
2004 |
| Variety: |
Bordeaux Style |
| Region: |
Wairarapa
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| Alcohol:
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13%
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| TA: |
5.8 |
| pH: |
3.6 |
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