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 withsubtle 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 ‘newnormal,’ 2024 came in early and compressed. As we moved from a La Niña to El Niñoclimatic 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 wheretemperatures were quite mild allowing fruit to develop slowly. These conditions allowedsugar, flavour & colour to develop simultaneously which certainly was a precursor for agreat year! Early March threw a slight curve ball where overnight temperatures remainedabove average which lead to a rapid increase in sugar levels and brought the vintage onrapidly. Overall a solid vintage with wines with purity and varietal character.
Grenache was hand-picked specifically for the production of rose’. The fruit was crushedand 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 onfull lees for 7 months before blending and bottling.