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Clarendon Hills Grenache Romas
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Clarendon Hills are vineyard and varietal expressionists who strive for purity and perfection and seek to portray the story of the individual vineyard 'Terroir' within their wines. Clarendon Hills’ collection of the old vine vineyards in sub-regions of McLaren Vale assists in defining their international pedigree for making world class wines that rate extremely highly among the international press.
Clarendon Hills makes an array of 6 single vineyard, old vine Grenache each from 80+ year old vineyards. The Romas Grenache vineyard is located within the foothills of McLaren Vale and was planted in the 1920's atop some of the worlds oldest geology located in Blewitt Springs’ famous ancient deep sands. The result is truly magical.
Romas is named after winemaker Roman Bratasiuk's childhood nickname and is one of Australia's most highly rated Grenache. Featuring within Clarendon Hills' Grand Cru classification system it offers many years of enjoyment with floral rose petals atop raspberry fruit coupled with terracotta 'terroir' characters that reveal after 15-20 years in the cellar. The Romas vineyard is one of the ultimate Grenache 'terroirs' of the world
The Romas Grenache is a single-site wine from a bush vine patch planted in the 1940s. This is the steepest stoniest section of the Blewitt Springs Grenache site previously tasted. The old gnarly bush vines are dry-grown and are extremely low yielding. This site has a due East aspect and is located at 240 metres above sea level and represents Blewitt Springs’ higher altitude stony geology with fewer areas of sand and more quartz, ironstone, and shale content. The rocky soils impact most noticeably on reduced yields and added concentration.
Clarendon Hills makes an array of 6 single vineyard, old vine Grenache each from 80+ year old vineyards. The Romas Grenache vineyard is located within the foothills of McLaren Vale and was planted in the 1920's atop some of the worlds oldest geology located in Blewitt Springs’ famous ancient deep sands. The result is truly magical.
Romas is named after winemaker Roman Bratasiuk's childhood nickname and is one of Australia's most highly rated Grenache. Featuring within Clarendon Hills' Grand Cru classification system it offers many years of enjoyment with floral rose petals atop raspberry fruit coupled with terracotta 'terroir' characters that reveal after 15-20 years in the cellar. The Romas vineyard is one of the ultimate Grenache 'terroirs' of the world
The Romas Grenache is a single-site wine from a bush vine patch planted in the 1940s. This is the steepest stoniest section of the Blewitt Springs Grenache site previously tasted. The old gnarly bush vines are dry-grown and are extremely low yielding. This site has a due East aspect and is located at 240 metres above sea level and represents Blewitt Springs’ higher altitude stony geology with fewer areas of sand and more quartz, ironstone, and shale content. The rocky soils impact most noticeably on reduced yields and added concentration.