Tasting Notes for Angove Wild Olive Organic McLaren Vale Rose from the Winery

The Angove Family's Wild Olive Organic wines are bursting with fruit flavour and named from the WIld Olive trees growing along the regions winter creeks and waterholes. This wine is from Grenache, Carignan and Shiraz vines planted on the Angove Family's Warboys Vineyard.The wine is soft pale pink with aromas of strawberries and cream, raspberries with hints of spice and briar leaf. This certified organic Rosé has an appealing and refreshing zesty palate showing lovely bright fruits, complexity and good length.

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Vineyard

Sourced from our organic and biodynamic Warboys vineyard in McLaren Vale. All our vineyards are managed as individual ecosystems, using sustainable and organic processes, no synthetic inputs and a particular focus on soil health, as healthy soils produce exceptional grapes that make delicious wines. Biodiversity within the vineyard provides natural pest predators and weed suppressors, keeping our vines happy and healthy and ensuring every bunch has incredible balance, flavour, and colour.

Vintage 

The McLaren Vale wine region experienced good winter rains filling the soil profile in readiness for spring. Continued wet and cold conditions throughout spring delayed budburst and resulted in slower shoot growth. Spring rainfall was higher than the McLaren Vale winter average. Multiple rain events during spring resulted in increased disease pressure and inflorescence loss, some varieties being more affected than others.

Flowering occurred in late November and weather was mostly cool, wet, windy and cloudy adversely impacting on fruit set in across the region. With the advent of summer, rainfall stopped abruptly and conditions for December, January and February were dry and mild with only a few days above 40ºC. The combination of late flowering and cool summer conditions resulted in a late harvest period. Once again cool wet autumn conditions combined to further slow ripening and prolong vintage.

Winemaking

A moderate crop of organically certified Grenache, Carignan and Shiraz grapes was handpicked from our Warboys Vineyard in the cool early morning and crushed and chilled to press on arrival at the winery. The light soft pink free run juice was moved to cooled fermentation tanks. Once fermentation was complete the wine was racked off lees and given a light filtration prior to bottling on site. 

COLOUR Soft carnation pink with copper hues.

AROMA Lifted melon, lemongrass and watermelon with a hint of briar leaf

FLAVOUR Fresh and medium bodied with a sleek texture, gentle extract, a delicate balance of zesty acidity and bright summer fruits.

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HAVE IT WITH... Smoked salmon bruschetta or Charcuterie

Certified Organic

Vegan Friendly

Minimal Preservatives

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