2005 Stephanie's Dream SV

Tasting Notes

This wine has a lifted nose showing spice and white pepper alongside cherry and plum fruit. The palate is complex with the fruit flavours combining with savoury characters of bacon and smoky oak and a crisp acid finish.

Food Suggestions: Ideal to serve with the finest rare roasted and peppered joint of beef.

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Harvest Details
After rain in early March, the 2005 autumn provided weeks of consistent sunny, dry, mild days allowing ideal slow steady ripening well into May. The cool Whittlesea site produced ripe grapes with great elegance and balance and wonderful spice characters.
Variety	97% Shiraz; 3% Viognier
Vineyard	Whittlesea
Harvest Date	13 May 05
Yield	2.8 t/a
Beaume	14.4
Total Acid	6.8
pH	3.78

Vinification Details
Vinification late in the cool part of the season allowed a slow and very cool ferment which helped retain all of the perfume and elegance of the grapes. The extended maceration ensured great extraction of colour and ripe flavours from the skins and the use of natural yeast and wood fermenters added a savoury tone to the wine. New oak was kept in balance with the elegance of the fruit enabling a more European style of Shiraz to evolve. Shiraz and Viognier were co-fermented to achieve seamless integration of their flavours and aromas. Final blending limited the Viognier to 3% to ensure Viognier was in balance with the elegance of the Shiraz.
Fermentation	57% was fermented in open wood fermenters using hand plunging and 43% was fermented in stainless steel. The wine was vinified using whole berries and received extended maceration for 35 days.
Yeasts	100 % Natural
Oak Treatment	Aged in 20% new oak for 22 month
New Oak	100% French
Coopers	Bossuet, Sirugue
Filtration	Nil

Bottling Details
Bottling Date	25th May 2007
Total Production	425 Cases
Alcohol	14.3% v/v
pH	3.44
Total Acid	7.0 g/l