Sixty Clicks Shiraz Mataro 3245993423017

Sixty Clicks Shiraz Mataro 3245993423017Sixty Clicks is a concept. Normally Boutinots wines come from mountains or oceans but Central Victoria is just a flat, featureless plain. All we have to describe the place is vines in time and distance. Sixty clicks in a minute, an hour, frames per second in film, and sixty kms from one side of this farm to the other. The Shiraz and Mataro grapes used in this blend come from the flatter parts of the vineyard in north west Victoria. The vineyards run

The harvest commenced mid-September under a bright sunshine

The grapes are organically produced and hand harvested in September

whole bunch pressed and fermented in stainless steel with 4-6 weeks of lees stirring

This helped to add more complexity and weight to the palate

then bottled directly from barrel by hand on a cask by cask basis

With its contemporary matte black finish and uncomplicated branding

beef or game - is ideal with this wine

Non chill-filtered for additional aroma and mouthfeel

liquorice and a core of black

unoaked and unfortified wine brims with aromas of strawberry jam and allspice

50% Roussanne

This gives way to a matrix of alluvial soil (volcanic rock which was rounded by erosion as it was carried many kilometres from high up in the Andes mountains)