Small island Rose 2020
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SIRE202010 UCAU
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Campbell Mattinson: 95/100 "Brilliant wine. Everything is franked in full. Fantastic fruit intensity, florals in waves, a quartz aspect to both the texture and flavour."
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The Small Island Patsie's Blush is a micro-batch Rosé made from premium Tasmanian Pinot Noir.
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It displays red berry and apricot characters with grip and texture on the palate.
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1 or more bottles$34.00
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Campbell Mattinson: "Brilliant wine. Everything is franked in full. Fantastic fruit intensity, florals in waves, a quartz aspect to both the texture and flavour."
The Small Island Patsie's Blush is a micro-batch Rosé made from premium Tasmanian Pinot Noir. The juice was fermented in old oak barrel low and slow, getting to dry with a lovely layer of texture and complexity. Dry rose with a beautiful salmon blush color this wine was barrel fermented with wild yeast. It displays red berry and apricot characters with grip and texture on the palate.
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- Red Cherry
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- Red Fruits
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Campbell Mattinson
95"Brilliant wine. Everything is franked in full. Fantastic fruit intensity, florals in waves, a quartz aspect to both the texture and flavour. This is a wine that announces itself on the nose and then goes on a rampage through the mouth, texture-wise and flavour-wise."
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Australia
Australia's wine industry is a thriving part of the country's economy, contributing significantly to employment, production, export, and tourism. In fact, the industry is the fourth-largest wine exporter in the world, shipping out 760 million liters of wine to countries including France, Italy, Spain, and the UK. One of the key factors contributing to Australia's success as a "New World" wine producer is the formal export and marketing of its wines through Wine Australia.
Australia's wine regions are scattered across the south and southeast, with almost every state boasting its own vineyards. Victoria, for example, is home to an impressive 21 wine regions. Some of the most famous wine regions in Australia include Margaret River, Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Eden Valley, Clare Valley, Hunter Valley, Yarra Valley, and local regions to New South Wales such as Cowra, Southern Highlands, and Mudgee.
Australian winemakers are known for producing a diverse range of grape varieties, with Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Noir being among the most popular. They tend to focus on producing wines that are ripe, fruit-forward, and easy to drink, using modern winemaking techniques and equipment such as stainless steel tanks and temperature-controlled fermentation.
With its bold, fruit-driven flavors and reputation for quality and diversity, Australian wine has become a popular choice for wine lovers around the world. And with such a broad range of wine regions and grape varieties, there's something for every palate to enjoy.
Tasmania
Apart from being the most southerly wine region in Australia, Tasmania has among the coolest growing subregions with the potential to make distinctly different wines than in the rest of the country.
Most well known for cool-climate varietals like Pinot noir and Chardonnay (thus sparkling too), Sauvignon Blanc smaller plantings of Riesling, Cabernet and Pinot Gris (more commonly Pinot labelled Pinot Grigio)
Historically, Tasmania can lay claim to being the founder of both the Victorian and South Australian wine industries as William Henty sailed from Launceston to Portland (in Victoria) in 1834 and planted grape cuttings there. Though not conclusively proven, it's believed that John Hack planted vines in South Australia in 1837, closely followed in 1838 by John Reynell.
Warmer vintages (possibly attributable to global warming) has had positive effects on region's industry, allowing grapes in recent vintages to achieve full phenolic ripeness, making for vibrant wines that have been widely accepted as world class.
About the brand Small Island Wines
"Tasmanian-born James Broinowski completed his bachelor of viticulture and oenology at the University of Adelaide in 2013. He was faced with the same problem as many other young graduates wanting to strike out on their own: cash. While others in his predicament may have found the same solution, his was the first wine venture to successfully seek crowdfunding. The first year (’15) allowed him to purchase pinot noir from Glengarry in the north of the island, making 2100 bottles of pinot noir that won a gold medal at the Royal International Hobart Wine Show ’16; and 200 bottles of rosé that sold out in 4 days at the Taste of Tasmania Festival ’15. In ’16 he was able to buy pinot from the highly-rated Gala Estate on the east coast and back up the ’15 purchase from the Glengarry Vineyard with a ’16 purchase. It looks very much like a potential acorn to the oak story, for the quality of the wines is seriously good." - James Halliday
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