Hemera Estate

Grenache Rose 2024

This bone-dry style is textural with fresh crunchy red-apple acidity and delicate fruit phenolics. A rose’ to be enjoyed all year round!
Colour: Bright, Bronze with copper highlights.
Aroma: Delicate perfume of wild raspberry, rose petal and strawberries & cream with subtle Asian 5 spice.
Palate: Creamy fruit-sweet mid palate with flavours of melon, rhubarb and white cherry.
Following Barossa’s 2023 vintage where harvest was 3-4 weeks later than the ‘new normal,’ 2024 came in early and compressed. As we moved from a La Niña to El Niño climatic pattern, winter rainfall in the Barossa was lower than the long-term average. Veraison started in Mid-January to early February during an atypical period where temperatures were quite mild allowing fruit to develop slowly. These conditions allowed sugar, flavour & colour to develop simultaneously which certainly was a precursor for a great year! Early March threw a slight curve ball where overnight temperatures remained above average which lead to a rapid increase in sugar levels and brought the vintage on rapidly. Overall a solid vintage with wines with purity and varietal character.
Grenache was hand-picked specifically for the production of rose’. The fruit was crushed and macerated for 2.5 hours to increase colour pick-up as well as some natural fruit tannin. The must was then gently pressed to liberate the juice, and then fermented in stainless steel
at cool temperatures to retain delicate fruit aromas. The wine post ferment was matured on full lees for 7 months before blending and bottling.