Heartland Wines Foreign Correspondent Dolcetto 2018 (6 Bottles ) Langhorne Creek

by CellarHand

$151.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Reviews
A fun wine with an intriguing label – exposing flavour and truth it reads. Dolcetto and Lagrein seeing no oak. Hello Saturday BBQ! A blend 95/5 only seeing stainless steel for six months. Get fresher. Whiffs of peppered steak, tilled black earth and juicy red berries, its soft through the mouth. There’s good weight and the fruit fills out accordingly before dried herbs rise up late. A long peppery finish hangs and pleads for some meat to hold its hand. Sausages or steak or both plus a BBQ for the win. A wine you can easily chill to make it even more versatile during the warmer months. Drink now to three years. 10/2018
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Tasting Notes
Foreign Correspondent is a hard hitting exploration of fruit character. Red berries zip around the mouth. They are enhanced by a sprinkling of herbs and spices. This is an uncompromising, elegant and sophisticated way to enjoy a relaxing glass of red that pairs with everything from fine food to fine company. Serve cold for maximum enjoyment.

The Dolcetto and Lagrein were picked early for maximum freshness. The two were then fermented for 24 hours at very low temperature before being taken off skins for a remarkable lightness of colour and tannin. No oak was used for this wine which was left in stainless steel for six months before cold stabilization and bottling.

We were forced to abandon this wine in 2017 due to poor growing conditions for Dolcetto. Perfect growing conditions have led us to be able to revisit our new friend with very pleasing results. This is more fruit driven than our 2016 offering and is delicious cold, but will retain the joy as it warms in your glass.

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Description

The Heartland story began in the late 1990’s when winemaker Ben Glaetzer became excited about the outstanding quality of fruit being grown in some of South Australia’s lesser-known regions, in particular Langhorne Creek.

Together with industry veterans, Scott Collett, Grant Tilbrook and more recently Nick Keukenmeester, they grew Heartland into an award-winning winery.

“A really important point I want to get across is we’re not a group of investors that have got together and poured cash into it for the sake of doing it. We are at the coalface of it.”

Today Heartland sources all of its fruit exclusively from Langhorne Creek and makes only red wines.

Heartland is the essence of Australia’s Langhorne Creek, a region that typifies Australian texture, balance and spice at its finest. Heartland grows and selects grapes with the most flavour per acre through careful vineyard management and years of collective expertise.

The brilliant Ben Glaetzer gives focus and expression to these flavours in the winery. Heartland is the place between the vines that offers the best view of the gum trees.

CellarHand

CellarHand is a fine-wine importer and wholesale distributor, with a portfolio featuring some of the most sought-after estates of Germany, Austria, France and Italy, as well some of the greatest producers from Australia and New Zealand. Our ethos has always been to build a portfolio as you’d construct the perfect wine list. We work with small, family producers who express the best of their regions. The wines we sell are the wines we enjoy, and the people who make them are like family to us. They are wines that taste of where they come from, and though they’re steeped in history and stamped with the signature of their terroir, they’re more than ever relevant – and desirable – to the Australian diner of today.

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