2008 Eldridge Estate Gamay

The nose is spicy with cherry and a little blueberry. The palate is very clean with berry flavours and a crisp acid finish. It can take light chilling in summer. 

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 but 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: 2008

Chemistry: 14.0% Alcohol by Volume, pH 3.40 and Total Acid of 6.3g/L