Hugo Family Estate Rose

Hand picked from two blocks on the Hugo estate. The old bush vines right by cellar door planted in 1951 add fruit purity and delicacy. The younger block planted in 2018 – 2019 add freshness and a natural acidity. Our aim is to make a crisp dry style Grenache Rose with texture and fruit purity. Light, bright, fresh savoury spice. Lingering fruit & acid, cherry & raspberry. A light balanced dry style Rose with a crisp finish.

Additional information

Vintage 2025

Region McLaren Vale

Vineyard Estate grown

At a Glance Bright, dry in style, watermelon, orange blossom, lingering acid.

Alc 12.5%

Tasting Note Bright, fresh savoury spice. Lingering fruit and acid, raspberry, redcurrant, and sour cherry.

Vintage Like any good vintage, 2024 has thrown us plenty of curve balls… but as they say, in the middle of adversity lies opportunity! A cool start to the growing season brought significant rains from November through to January. A week of hot days approaching 40 degrees occurred in March resulting in the whole vineyard being harvested in 9 days. Thankfully, al our hard work is paying off with early indicators displaying fantastic results.

Vineyard Estate grown bush vine Grenache with a vine age of70 years. The outside rows were selected which crop significantly higher then the remainder of the block. Fruit was also sourced from a young grenache block planted by the Hugo family in 2018 & 2019. This block has been shoot thinned and trained with lift up foliage wires to still produce high quality fruit.

Winemaking Crushed and held on skins for only minutes to extract colour and flavour, then gently pressed. Fermented cool to preserve fruit purity and delicacy. Wine also received regular lee stirring to build texture and a small barrel component. After ferment when the Rose was 'dry', bottling occurred shortly after to capture freshness.