Ox Hardy Wines McLaren Vale Grenache 2021 (6 Bottles) McLaren Vale

by Wines Australia

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The fruit for the 2020 Grenache was selected from three separate blocks in Blewitt Springs and McLaren Flat – the Natale, DogRidge, and Conté vineyards. These old bush vine blocks are dry grown and yield high-quality fruit that displays structure and complexity. The fruit was handpicked on 10th and 11th March in beautiful Autumn weather and arrived at the winery in outstanding condition.

The Natale and Conté parcels had just over 10% whole bunches placed in the bottom of the fermenters, with the balance of the fruit destemmed and crushed on top. The DogRidge parcel was destemmed and crushed. The whole bunch ferments were hand plunged three times per day, and the DogRidge ferment was pumped over twice per day. Sugar dryness was reached after 12 days on skins and the fermenters were emptied and pressed off skins.

The two whole bunch ferments were blended, and the wines were pumped into older French oak barriques and hogsheads

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Ox Hardy

The Ox Hardy range of wines represent a rare and precious combination of people, vineyard, history and winemaking provenance.

Andrew ‘Ox’ Hardy is one of Australia’s most respected winemakers and his family’s Upper Tintara Vineyard is one of Australia’s most important viticultural assets. The Vineyard’s last remaining 2.54ha block of 1891 Ancestor Vines, planted by Andrew’s great-great grandfather Thomas Hardy, are some of Australia’s oldest and most valuable. And Andrew’s library of wines made from the family’s vineyard over the past two decades, but cellared and hidden from the public until the first release in 2019, demonstrate the quality and age-worthiness of these special releases.

Each element of the Ox Hardy range of wines are precious in their own right, but the circumstances that have finally brought them together makes them a treasure of the Australian wine industry.

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