Ravensworth Tempranillo Graciano Garnacha 2023

Our Tinto is part of the regional collection where we access fruit from our greater region including the Canberra district, Hilltops, Tumbarumba & Gundagai GI's. This is a pretty complex blend with Tempranillo coming in from three growers: Quarry Hill near us, Freeman vineyards at Kingsvale in the Hilltops and Simon Locke in Gundagai. The Graciano is also from Freeman and Garnacha from Quarry Hill. So a true regional blend. Harvest started on the 20th March with the Gundagai fruit arriving and finished by the 19th April with the lovely Graciano. Each of the 5 batches was fermented separately in 1t open top fermenters. We use this neat little Bucher Oscillys destemmer which, when fed slowly with the vibrating receival hopper, allows for very gentle separation of the berries from the bunch stems. This leaves essentially whole berries rather than mushed up must that most systems give as we also don't use a must pump. The destemmed fruit is moved via an escalator to the fermenters. Each batch was then pressed and settled overnight then racked off gross lees to a range of oak puncheons (500L) and Barriques (228l). No new oak here, mostly 3–5-year-old vessels.