Clovella Mataro Grenache, Smalltown Vineyards Vintage:2019

Clovella Mataro Grenache, Smalltown Vineyards Vintage:2019Clovella is a field planting of roughly 70 30 Mataro and Grenache. It is a 40 year old vineyard from the Gomersal sub district of the Barossa Valley that Rolf Binder and Noel Young have been cultivating themselves for many years. The wine spends 22 months in older French oak. The purpose of this wine is to show Mataro and Grenache with some development rather than the super juicy young bright Grenache of the moment. We are very proud to be associated

a 3-4 week maceration in temperature controlled tanks follows

44% Chardonnay

family-owned estate draws from 800 hectares of elevated hillside vineyards in some of the best zones of Rioja Baja

a native of Piemonte

Sourced from a 6 hectare plot on the Campogiovanni estate

smoother texture and more complexity

these characters follow through to a palate which has a hint of strawberry mousse and ripe fruit flavours

Cellar for up to 6 years

The winery is named after the Sileni who featured in Roman mythology alongside Bacchus

When he died in 1983

mica-slate as well as loess soils

it is harmonious