2021 Local Weirdos BRUTAL!!! (1500ml)

 

VARIETAL: Grenache
REGION: Swan Valley, WA
VITICULTURE: Organic (In Conversion)
WINEMAKER: Sam, Dave, Larry, Charles & Matthew

"This wine mostly comes from the third pick of our Grenache on the final day of January. This fruit was then macerated on skins for 10 days and then then pressed into a 600L qvevri where it stayed for a couple of months, until Paul - our host at Swan Valley Wines - needed to use it, at which point it was racked to two puncheons, both half-filled. These puncheons were topped with direct-press-carbonically-macerated grenache that was otherwise destined for the Big Valley Bombo. One puncheon was racked clean, the other was transferred with the lees.

This wine, was the latter.

So what did we taste on that fateful blending day? Spice, rosewater, patchouli, and burnt orange on the nose, with hints of the strawberry from the carbonic maceration poking through. A full palate, bitter red cherry and olive tapenade, strung along an acid that directs but never overpowers, finishing with incredible texture from time on lees. A wine we bloody well made pretty bloody well, but perhaps didn’t intend to make in this way. It fits the vintage well as a Brutal should be a statement as well as a wine proclaiming loudly that you are committed to the zero/zero ethos going forward".