2024 Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Late Harvest
Buy This Wine
The 2024 Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Late Harvest is our second attempt at making a sweet wine from the Crayères Vineyard. The majority of our Crayères Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc was harvested early March 2024, and we decided to leave some fruit on the eastern part of the vineyard. We harvested this fruit one month later, on the 4th of April 2024, with 60% clean and late harvested fruit, 35% shrivelled fruit, and 5% botrytis.
We fermented and aged the wine in tank with the intention to retain the very intense pure flavours from the late harvested fruit, with a hint of Botrytis characters.
The Crayères Vineyard is located at the top of a north-south limestone ridge in Wrattonbully, one of Australia’s most exciting regions. This vineyard has been baptised the
Crayères Vineyard after the chalk cellars in Xavier’s region of birth in Champagne, France because of the natural limestone caves found underneath the vineyard. The clay rich Terra Rossa top-soil, characteristic of the area, promotes nutrient uptake while the underlying limestone is a reserve of moisture for the vines. The Sauvignon Blanc was planted on rootstocks in 2004 using the F4V6 and H5V10 “Australian” clones on 101-14 rootstocks, at a relatively high density for the area (4,444 vines per hectare with 1.5m wide rows), which means more km2 of canopy per hectare, and better fruit exposure. The fruiting wire is only 50cm above ground which provides extra ripeness for the vines in this cool climate region. The fruit from the western part of the vineyard is retained for our Crayères Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc.
Read more about the Crayères Vineyard.
