2010 Eldridge Estate Gamay

Aromas, rich with spring flowers, blueberry, cherry and a little peppery spice, tend to ooze out of the glass of this wine. The palate is rich and flavourful showing red berries with a little bueberry and some spice on the finish. The tannins have excellent grip and the flavours are held tight with firm acid. This wine matches well with lightly spiced food and can be served chilled.

Food match: Thai, Lebanese, Moroccan, Spanish cuisine

This wine is made in the vineyard where strict yield control and fruit exposure is needed. The wine is destemmed and the resulting skin and juice mix contains 90% whole berries and NO stems. A 5 day prefermentation cold soak precedes a natural ferment with no yeast being added. A 4 day post-fermentation soak follows before pressing.

Vintage: 2010

Chemistry: 13.5% Alcohol by Volume, pH 3.44 and Total Acid of 6.1g/L

Gamay
Red Wines