Tasting notes for Yangarra Ovitelli Grenache 2019 from the Winery

Ovitelli is the most perfumed and elegant Grenache from the sands at Yangarra. The vibrant fruit of those dry grown 1946 bush vines is rewarded with a long, luxurious ferment and a whole autumn on skins in big ceramic eggs.

VINTAGE SUMMARY

The 2019 growing season was very dry, which resulted in incredibly low yields. We had a relatively warm lead up to the ripening period, which produced a very condensed and fast harvest. With Roussanne being a late ripening variety, it faired very well in a season like this, giving rise to concentration, freshness of flavor and marked natural acidity.

WINEMAKING

Sourced from Block 30 planted in 1946 and adjacent to the High Sands block. Hand-picked and mechanically berry sorted. 100% destemmed, crushed and tipped into 675L ceramic eggs. The fermentation occurred in the eggs and remained on skins for 158 days post fermentation. No pressings are used in this wine. No oak maturation, and matured exclusively in the eggs for another 5 months. Bottled March 2020.

VARIETY

100% Grenache Noir

VINES

Vase shaped bush vine unirrigated

YEAR PLANTED

1946 SOIL Deep weathered sands

GEOLOGY

North Maslin Sands (54 million years old)

BLOCK

30 2.0 hectares

ELEVATION

205M above sea level

Alcohol: 14.0%

pH: 3.37

TA: 6.5 g/L

Yield: 24 hectolitres per hectar

Yangarra

Yangarra is a single-vineyard estate situated in the north- east of the McLaren Vale region, South Australia. Yangarra’s combination of ancient geology, higher altitude and Mediterranean climate provide the ideal growing conditions for the best grape varieties of the southern Rhône

(SKU: YG_OVI_19)