Author: Andrew Graham
Source: ozwinereview.com.au
Review Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
From an early vintage in Wrattonbully, this was produced from ripe grapes that are whole bunch pressed and fermented in a new 3000L foudre. It undergoes a very slow 3 month ferment and then put back until older large oak for 5 months. Numbers: pH 3.25 TA 6.7g/L RS 5.82g/L
Gee it’s a hulking wine too, with everything – oak, fruit and alcohol – still coming together. The nose is particularly ripe and pungent nose – pushing into pineapple again this year, with the barrel character placing this into pineapple cream territory. Thick cut, it’s quite a firm, concentrated style, if sullen and sewed up tight, with only alcohol to show on the finish. Clearly taking a lead from white […] this is a wine of impact and weight, but at the moment a bit blunt and not-so-varietal. Needs 12 months to come together methinks.
Best drinking: 2017-2021
Rated: 16.8/20, 89/100+
Alcohol: 13.8%
RRP: $32
Would I buy it? Not yet
Link to the full article: http://www.ozwinereview.com/2016/03/terre-terre-new-releases-including-new-rouge.html
