2021 Loosen Barry Wolta Wolta Riesling Clare Valley 6 Pack

• Producer: Loosen Barry
• Varietal: Riesling
• Region: Clare Valley
• Alcohol: 12.0%
• Net volume: 750ml
• Vintage: 2021

Aromas of oyster shell, sea breeze and fun flint with a brown lime backing and fresh citrus. The wine has a silk-like softness in its acid and the fruit weight starts early and drives deep through the palate. There’s a richness to the fruit, starting with yellow melons and exotic fruits moving through citrus, brown lime and mineral, wet slate. It’s laced with tension and softness.

On 24th February 2021, six tonnes of Riesling was hand harvested and sorted from Block 18 (planted in 1979) at our Wolta Wolta vineyard. We harvested the fruit at 12 .0 Baumé. Fruit was stored in a cold room overnight to bring the temperature below 10?C. Once destemmed and crushed, the fruit was then pressed into stainless steel for 12 hours to settle, before being racked into the 3,000 litre German oak ‘Fuder’ cask. The light lees were racked which assisted a wild ferment to take place after five days. Fermentation took four weeks with the temperature maintained at 18?C. When residual sugar was below 10g/L, cooling was turned on to arrest the fermentation at 5g/L, achieving sugar- acid balance. The wine then rested on full yeast lees for 16 months at 10?C before being transferred to stainless steel where it sat on fine lees at 1?C for a further 1 month. Our 2021 Wolta Wolta was bottled on 23rd August 2022 and, after spending 18 months in bottle, will be released on 1st March 2024.

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