Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard Brooks Road Shiraz 2022 eurocentric - Umani Ronchi Montepulciano d’Abruzzo

- Umani Ronchi Montepulciano d’Abruzzo ‘Podere’

Sagrantino is here

pure and very aromatic with varietal citrus fruit

it has never been in better form

Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard Brooks Road Shiraz 2022 eurocentric - Umani Ronchi Montepulciano d’AbruzzoHandpicked, 20% whole bunch, 30% destemmed and berry sorted and 50% crushed to open top fermenters. A gentle maceration principle of wetting the cap and only draining and returning when reductive. Approximately 20 days on skins. No pressings used and drained directly to barrel. Kept on lees in 30% new French oak puncheons, with remaining volume in 1 to 2 year old puncheons for 7 months. Racked and blended. Further matured in older French and Austrian