Spinifex Clairette 2021 (6 Bottles), Barossa Valley

by Fine Wine Cellars

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The fruit source is an elevated, 20 year old southern Barossa vineyard. Soils are limestone based. The vineyard is relatively late maturing, being amongst the last whites to be harvested.

All fruit is hand harvested, cooled overnight prior to being crushed but not destemmed – macerations are typically around 4-8 hours before pressing. The must is fermented with indigenous yeasts, malolactic is avoided, and the young wine remains on full lees for 6-8 months prior to racking. Bottled without filtration.

Although this is the first release of this variety as a straight up style, we have been using Clairette as a blending component in Lola for a few years. We see Clairette as a variety with significant potential. It’s fruit is hardy, withstands heat and weather well and whilst not highly acid retentive, it delivers wines with delicacy, freshness and texture.

What is Clairette Wine?
Clairette is a light-colored grape variety that grows throughout southern France. … Clairette is also permitted as a minor blending grape in a wide range of other appellations in the Languedoc and Rhone regions: perhaps most notably in the red and white wines of Chateauneuf-du-Pape.

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Spinifex Wines owners and operators, Peter Schell and Magali Gely, have had a home in the Barossa Valley for over twenty years and hold a strong commitment to and passion for the Barossa. They also have a strong French connection, both physically and philosophically.

Magali’s family, who up until recently were vignerons with a long lineage in Lunel, near Montpellier, still live in south France, and over the last ten years Peter has worked six French vintages, in Provence, the Languedoc, Bordeaux and Burgundy.

Spinifex Wines owners and operators, Peter Schell and Magali Gely, have had a home in the Barossa Valley for over twenty years and hold a strong commitment to and passion for the Barossa.
Wine making process at Spinifex Wines

Time spent in the south of France has fuelled their interest in making unique, hand crafted wines with personality, which are generous and honest expressions of the varieties and their provenance.

Spinifex Wines grapes are sourced from a group of dedicated growers in both the Barossa and Eden Valleys, taking advantage of the great diversity of the soils and meso-climates of the Barossa to create wines with balance, character, depth of flavour and Barossan generosity.

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