Kalleske Buckboard Durif 2023

  • Vegan Suitable
  • Certified Biodynamic
  • Certified Organic
  • Winery
  • Region
    Barossa, SA
  • Grapes
    Durif

The palate is rich, bold, and flavoursome. Full-bodied with intense dark fruits.

The natural tannins are classic Durif – prominent, grippy, chalky, mouth-coating; all in a welcome way.  New oak barrels are evident adding dark chocolatey notes together with smoke and coffee perfectly complimenting the big fruits. 

The bright aromatics are very inviting. Notes of violets, fresh baked fruit cake, cherry ripe, plum, trifle, sarsaparilla, grape jubes, sage flower and a hint of toasty oak.

$28.71 in a straight case of 12

$29.43 in any 12

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$32.70 each


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Tasting Notes for Kalleske Buckboard Durif from the Winery

Buckboard Durif is a single vineyard wine that’s been grown, vintaged and matured on the Kalleske property. Vigilant grape growing, traditional winemaking and maturation in new and seasoned American oak hogsheads has resulted in a powerful, full-bodied wine of great flavour and intensity.

For more than a century, the horse drawn ‘buckboard’ was indispensable on the farm. The buckboard buggy transported not only people but hauled produce and supplies to and from the farm, including countless loads of grapes. In the mid 1900s the horse was replaced with a motor and then the buckboard further evolved into a flat bed truck and eventually to the modern ute.

TASTING NOTES

Colour: Inky purple black is the colour of Buckboard 2023.

Aroma: The bright aromatics are very inviting. Notes of violets, fresh baked fruit cake, cherry ripe, plum, trifle, sarsaparilla, grape jubes, sage flower and a hint of toasty oak.

Palate: The palate is rich, bold, and flavoursome. Full-bodied with intense dark fruits. The natural tannins are classic Durif – prominent, grippy, chalky, mouth-coating; all in a welcome way.  New oak barrels are evident adding dark chocolatey notes together with smoke and coffee perfectly complimenting the big fruits.  The length is carried for a long time with fruit, tannin and oak all playing their harmonious part to the finish.

Recommended Drinking: Buckboard is a strong, powerful, and beautifully balanced Barossa Durif that can be enjoyed now or for a decade or more.

KALLESKE

The Kalleske vineyard and farm was established at Greenock in the Barossa’s North-West in 1853. For more than a century, the horse drawn ‘buckboard’ was indispensible on the farm. The buckboard buggy transported not only people but hauled produce and supplies to and from the farm, including countless loads of grapes. In the mid 1900s the horse was replaced with a motor and then the buckboard further evolved into a flat bed truck and eventually to the modern ute. Buckboard Durif is a single vineyard wine that’s been grown, vintaged and matured on the Kalleske property. Vigilant grapegrowing, traditional winemaking and maturation in new and seasoned American oak hogsheads has resulted in a powerful, full-bodied wine of great flavour and intensity.

GROWING SEASON

Vintage 2023 has produced exceptional wines.  It was the longest and latest on record, stretching from mid-March to early-May.  The vines got off to a superb start with a wet and cool Spring providing plenty of sub-soil moisture for the growing season ahead.  Summer brought typically average temperatures and was generally dry with occasional finite rain.  The vines were in fantastic condition for slow and steady ripening into Autumn with its mild days, cool nights, and isolated light rain.  Yields from 2023 are good and quality is excellent.

VINEYARD

Buckboard Durif is sourced from a single vineyard on the Kalleske property.  The hand-pruned vines are low-yielding and are grown in shallow, sandy loam soil over superb deep red clay, providing ideal conditions for Durif.

WINEMAKING

The grapes were picked on April 5th 2023, and then destemmed into open top fermenters.  The must was native-yeast fermented for 8 days on skins with hand pump-overs twice a day.  After pressing off skins the Durif was filled to a mix of 25% new and the balance used American oak hogsheads.  The wine underwent natural malolactic fermentation in barrel.  The Durif was matured in barrel for a year prior to bottling

(SKU: KA_DUR_CV)

Wine Type Red
Vintage 2023
Grapes Durif
Region Barossa, SA
Volume 750mL
Packaging Glass Bottle
Country of Origin Australia
Alcohol % 15.0
Alcohol Level High [14-16%]
Calories from alcohol per 100mL 84
Residual Sugar g/L ≈ 2
Sugar Level Dry [0-4 g/L]
Sugar (g) per 100mL less than 1
Calories from sugar per 100mL 0
Total Calories per 100mL 84
Calorie Level per 100mL Average [70-90]
Wild Yeast Fermentation Yes
Vegan Suitable Yes
Certified Biodynamic Yes
Certified Organic Yes
Free Sulphur Dioxide mg/L 39
Total Sulphur Dioxide mg/L 66

Previous Vintage Reviews Kalleske Buckboard Durif 2018

91 Points

“You want flavour? This delivers it in spades. Sweet flavour. Sawdust, raspberry, toffee apples, saturated plum. It’s an overflowing wine, a puppy dog, so eager. It’s clean as a whistle. It’s been done well.”.

Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, November 2019

92 Points

“Massively concentrated, dense purple colour, which stains the glass. Raw, infantile banana and cherry-essence aromas, undeveloped and primal. The palate is deep, dense, very fullbodied. Very tannic and massively proportioned. Blackberry jam and blackcurrant jam. Lush and profound; chewy tannins. Very good in a body-slammer style.”

Huon Hooke, The Real Review, August 2019

Finalist 4.5/5

2019 Alternative Red of the Year 2019

Winestate Wine of the Year Awards

“A bold super dense style with a chocolaty blackberry bouquet and fleshy red fruit flavours showing through the black cherry fruit characters. Ripe tannins

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