LVDO Sellicks Hill Shiraz Rose 2023

Serious | Savoury | Textural

Ingredients: Grape berries, 30 ppm sulphites

Vegan, unfined and unfiltered.

2023 Vintage
Sellicks Hill, McLaren Vale
12.6% ABV
750 mL

Over the years, I took a little detail of each wine (sparkling, white, rose, red, fortified) that I found inspirational for making a collectable rose and started to look for the right vineyard. As a result, the 2023 vintage is from a more sandy vineyard in Sellicks Hill (McLaren Vale), planted in 1990, dry-grown and certified organic. The wine-making is a culmination of all techniques I have played with since 2021: whole bunch pressed, wild-fermented and aged in various formats of ancient barrels (15+ years old puncheon and barrique) with a slightly longer levage (11 months) than in previous years. I also started a perpetual reserve aged under flor in 2021 with the purpose of adding complexity, savouriness and texture (similar to the perpetual reserve in Grower Champagne). There is a 10% perpetual reserve included in the 2023 Rose. While it's a different style from most Australian roses, every step was taken with intention and deliberation to make a serious and complex wine.

96 points, Shanteh Wale (Wine Pilot)
"This wine continues to evolve its style, by tweaking one chosen element at a time. It’s a celebration of artfully handled fruit and deliberate, chiselled handling in the winery. Superb."

94 points, Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
"What this wine has is dimension, and dimension in wine is never to be sniffed at, so to speak. It’s fluid and juicy but there’s a chalky, grainy character at play, so much so that it feels almost as if there’s grain to the very acidity. It finishes with a stoney dryness, and is interesting in the most meticulous of ways."