Little Reddie Bootleg Red Grenache Mourvedre 2022 (6 Bottles) Macedon & Heathcote, Victoria

A delicious light blend of Grenache and Mourvédre organically grown on clay, sand, silt and gravel with a topsoil rich in iron oxide in the Nagambie Lakes region.

Quite floral aromatically with roses, lavender and fresh cherry. The palate sees crunchy cherry, fresh raspberry and stewed plums meet savoury sage and rosemary, the slightest hint of cocoa powder. Light on its feet with fresh acidity and some rusty iron and salty minerality make it moresih and salivating.

Certified organic, Grenache 60% and Mourvèdre 40%. The fruit was sourced from two parcels in the Nagambie Lakes region in Central Victoria, where the soils are a combination of clay, sand, silt and gravel with topsoils rich in iron oxide. The Grenache was hand-picked in late March and fully destemmed, then fermented wild in cement at warm temperatures with regular pump-overs for two weeks.

It was aged in old hogsheads. The Mourvèdre was hand-picked in early April and whole-bunch pressed to stainless steel for a cool ferment before resting on gross lees for a few months. The two wines were blended in early summer, then bottled unfined and unfiltered in late December.