Mt Difficulty Ghost Town Syrah 2021
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Tasting Notes
Mt Difficulty Ghost Town Syrah 2021 is handcrafted in very limited quantities from our Bendigo vineyard in Central Otago. One of the few Syrah's you'll find from a region so famous for Pinot Noir.
A dark and opaque garnet, almost inky Syrah. The wild and savoury nose of bramble blackberry fruit intermixes with gun smoke, black olive, asphalt and licorice. Sweet blackcurrant and blueberry burst on the front palate, leading to a concentrated and dense mid palate of schist, wood smoke and saltbush flavours, wrapped in a sheath of very fine tannin. A surprisingly gentle and elegant finish considering the power and density on the front palate.
CELLARING POTENTIAL
We expect this wine to evolve with careful cellaring for another 10-15 years.
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Vintage Notes
VINTAGE 2021
The 2021 growing season was a return to the enviable, lower stress conditions that Central Otago is famous for. We started with a warm spring, which gave the vines a good start. January was cooler and wetter, which replenished the soils and slowed growth, giving small, intensely flavoured grapes. By the time the beginning of harvest rolled around, we were just ahead of our long term average in terms of rate of ripening, and with fruit in fantastic condition. Yields were thankfully back to average in most areas, with only Bannockburn cropping slightly lower. This has given wines with excellent flavour and structure.
WINEMAKING CONSIDERATIONS
The different clonal combinations in the vineyard were picked in two passes by hand. The fruit was destemmed with only a small proportion of the MS clone retained as whole bunches. Once processed, the must was cold soaked for 6 days before warming for indigenous fermentation. There was very minimal extraction during fermentation, and the wine was pressed off skins around 20 days in total. The wine settled in tank for several days before racking to French Oak, with only 10% new barrels. The wine was bottled after 12 months.
Alc. 14.5% T/A 6.0gL-1 pH 3.72 Residual Sugar 0 gL-1