2023 Gamay 'Levings' - 94 pts (Gary Walsh - The Wine Front) "Distinctive wine ...I love it. "
REVIEW: 94 PTS - “It’s 100% whole bunch (and is it what!) from the Brooklands Vineyard (De Bortoli) on the valley floor. Jalapeño and smoky mezcal-like smells, blackcurrant and cherry, dried flowers. It’s juicy and blackcurranty, ripe red fruits too, plenty of flavour and intensity, a light tickle of spritz, meaty and earthy, a whole lot of spice and silty rich powdery tannin, bright acidity, and excellent carry of flavour on its long finish. Distinctive wine. Perhaps not for everyone, though I love it.” (Gary Walsh - The Wine Front)
Brooklands vineyard (Valley floor)
open pot ferment with 100% whole-bunch fruit
natural ferment and malo-lactic
9 months in seasoned French oak puncheons
No fining or filtration.
only 1200 bottles made
Alcohol: 13.5 %
pH: 3.57
TA: 5.6 g/L
Region: Yarra Valley
minimum 6 units (straight or mixed)
REVIEW: 94 PTS - “It’s 100% whole bunch (and is it what!) from the Brooklands Vineyard (De Bortoli) on the valley floor. Jalapeño and smoky mezcal-like smells, blackcurrant and cherry, dried flowers. It’s juicy and blackcurranty, ripe red fruits too, plenty of flavour and intensity, a light tickle of spritz, meaty and earthy, a whole lot of spice and silty rich powdery tannin, bright acidity, and excellent carry of flavour on its long finish. Distinctive wine. Perhaps not for everyone, though I love it.” (Gary Walsh - The Wine Front)
Brooklands vineyard (Valley floor)
open pot ferment with 100% whole-bunch fruit
natural ferment and malo-lactic
9 months in seasoned French oak puncheons
No fining or filtration.
only 1200 bottles made
Alcohol: 13.5 %
pH: 3.57
TA: 5.6 g/L
Region: Yarra Valley
minimum 6 units (straight or mixed)
REVIEW: 94 PTS - “It’s 100% whole bunch (and is it what!) from the Brooklands Vineyard (De Bortoli) on the valley floor. Jalapeño and smoky mezcal-like smells, blackcurrant and cherry, dried flowers. It’s juicy and blackcurranty, ripe red fruits too, plenty of flavour and intensity, a light tickle of spritz, meaty and earthy, a whole lot of spice and silty rich powdery tannin, bright acidity, and excellent carry of flavour on its long finish. Distinctive wine. Perhaps not for everyone, though I love it.” (Gary Walsh - The Wine Front)
Brooklands vineyard (Valley floor)
open pot ferment with 100% whole-bunch fruit
natural ferment and malo-lactic
9 months in seasoned French oak puncheons
No fining or filtration.
only 1200 bottles made
Alcohol: 13.5 %
pH: 3.57
TA: 5.6 g/L
Region: Yarra Valley
minimum 6 units (straight or mixed)