VERMENTINO ‘25

VERMENTINO ‘25

$34.00

Size

Bright and expressive, it opens with lemon, golden apple and yellow grapefruit, layered with sea spray, and wild herbs. The palate is crisp and textural, with fine acidity, subtle savoury notes, and a gentle pithy grip.

  • Vineyard: Stocks Hill, Tatachilla Road McLaren Vale

  • Planted: 2019 (Grafted rootling on 140 Ruggeri)

  • Soil type: Dark loam over clay limestone mix.

  • Farming: Minimal Conventional.

  • Vineyard management: Simonit & Sirch Gyuot. Hand pruned, shoot & fruit thinned.

  • Picking date: February 21, 2025

  • Picking method: Hand harvested.

  • Processing: Destemmed, rollers opened for light crush. Sent straight to press.

  • Time on skins: 24 HOURS SOAKING PRIOR TO PRESS CYCLE

  • Pressing: Free run and light pressings combined.

  • Settling: Cold settled, racked with fluffy lees for extra texture and fuller body.

  • Fermentation: Cold fermentation at 14°C for 13 days

  • Aging vessel: 10.5 MONTHS IN 93% Seasoned French oak hogshead maturation with fermentation yeast lees giving complexity and fuller palate, 7% stainless steel maturation to retain varietal expression.

  • Filtration: Cellar bright

  • Fining: no

  • Alc: 12.3

  • Ph : 3.18

  • Ta : 8.4

  • So2: 40.8 free / 110 total

  • Bottled: February 13, 2026

  • Production: 850 bottles