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Sutton Grange Fairbank Rose 2018

This is not your average rose. Made in a dry french style by Sutton Grange near Heathcote, it is a blend of Merlot, Shiraz & Cabernet fruit, picked early for delicacy of flavour & good acidity, and made in a simple provincial style. But there's more to it than this.

While many roses are about fresh crisp fruit, clean dry palate or brisk crunchy tannins, this is a very different wine. For a start it doesn't look like rose; a pale rosey gold in the glass, it is what they call "onion skin" in Bandol. The nose is delicate and a little rustic with some faintly floral, faintly gamey aromatics over a taut framework. The palate is surprising and interesting. With a very restrained, almost savoury fleshiness and a finely textured minerality, it is a palate that seems to hint at other more complex styles. The finish is measured and elegant. It is a charming, eminently drinkable and very affordable wine and my pick of the current Roses (though there are a couple that give it a run for its money). The Viogner is worth a look as well.

Country: Australia
Region: Victoria


$28.00
each

$25.00
in a mixed case (6 per case)


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