“COLOUR: Deep purple to black
AROMA: This wine shines like a diamond, beautiful smells waft from the glass. Both blue and black fruits preserve, matched with clove, violet, vanilla, liquorice and cracked pepper.
PALATE: The fruit softly emerges along the palate, where your greeted with the Barossa textural brilliance of turning from robust and pure fruits and into a long and velvety texture. This wine shows a remarkable poise for such a young wine, the aromatics are clean and all so pure. The texture really creeps up on you and the late palate has the most wonderful and soft tannins, that linger as if in suspension.
There is so much to like and admire here. Barossa Valley purity in its best form, precise, persistent and defined. This bottling will be very long lived, as I see it very much in the mould of both the 2004 and 2005 vintage wines. These two vintages that have aged slowly and still have years ahead of them. This 2021 bottling can be enjoyed now, but I have to believe its greatest reward will come from 10 years in a cold cellar, in a word spectacular.
Winemaking: Fermented in five to ten tonne open top fermenters, with regular pump overs (twice daily over entire ferment) to control ferment, extract colour, flavour and tannins. Average time ‘on skins’ was 7-10 days before being pressed to tank, free run and pressings combined. The wine was then racked to barrel, where malolactic fermentation took place. Bella’s Garden was bottled unfined and unfiltered.
MATURATION: Aged for 18 months in French oak hogsheads, with 15% new and the remainder in older oak 1-6 years old.”
Two Hands
