2025 Small Victories Rosé

A thoroughly delicious Rose, with all of the fruit sourced from the family’s Greenock Vineyard in the Barossa Valley. It is a blend of bush vine Grenache and Mataro, as well as those same grapes from slightly younger vines, and some Cinsault to top things off. After fermentation, the wine spent several months on lees to enhance texture and weight. The colour here is a slightly pale pink, while the nose reveals notes of dry herbs, gentle red fruits, spices, hints of cherries and raspberries. The wine has balance, freshness and energy throughout, with quite zesty acidity. Of medium length, this will provide ideal summer drinking over the next couple of years.

This is a combination of grenache and mataro from Elderton's Greenock Vineyard, so it's got some pretty neat fruit sourcing in it. It's a spicy, crunchy, vibrant, light-bodied style, sort of loaded with strawberries and a peaches-and-cream-like character that I find most appealing. The palate is textured, and that comes from fermentation on light solids and further lees influence that's built up that weight and mouthfeel. As such, it makes for an excellent wine with lighter-bodied foods.