A new addition to the Sapling Yard portfolio, this is a medium bodied, medium tannin, bright young Sangiovese. Fresh red plums, savoury with dried herbs.

Food matches: it’s a perfect Friday night pizza or burger wine, something with a little bit of tomato sauce and some carbs for good measure.

Vintage: 2022 

Region: Hilltops

Vineyards: Freemans

Varieties: Sangiovese 100%

Alcohol: 13%

Production: 150 dozen 

Vinification: The Hilltops fruit was machine harvested giving mostly whole berries and some stalks, going into 4 x 780 litre picking bins for fermentation, with one bin using wild yeast and the remaining using 3 different yeasts. Once fermentation had started it was plunged 3 times a day until nearly dry, when it was pressed and racked to 5 hogsheads (French barrels) - 1 new the rest 2, 3, 4 years old.

In barrel for 10 months before being bottled, unfiltered on the 18th January. A couple of weeks time in bottle has allowed this wine to really develop.

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