LVDO Special Aged Rose 2023

Ingredients: Grapes, 30 ppm sulphites

Vegan, unfined and unfiltered.

12.8% ABV
750 mL

Grape: Syrah

Vintage: 2023

Vineyard: Greenock, Barossa Valley

Planted: 1992

Elevation: 300 m

Production: 270 bottles

In 2023, I leaned further into oxidative ageing, deliberately chasing flor development, as in a fino sherry. One barrel did exactly what I'd hoped. In the other, the flor — or florette, a thinner yeast layer than true flor — broke. I set that single 225-litre barrique aside and aged it as a standard wine, topping it up regularly from then on.

Forty (40) months later, the tannins had resolved, and the wine had taken on real richness and the savoury complexity I'd been chasing all along. The result sits somewhere between a rosé and a light red: a completely singular wine, with a yeasty, savoury undertone and the chalky acidity you find in vintage Champagne.

Limit 3 bottles per person.

Excerpt from Max Allen's rosé feature in the Australian Financial Review:

“This limited-release rosé spent 40 months in barrel on lees before bottling and has developed a deeply delicious undertow of savoury umami, rosehip fruit and a bone-dry finish. It will age beautifully.”