Snake & Herring ‘Blue Monday’ Grenache/Mataro/ Shiraz Frankland River 2018 1959 The harvest is carried out

The harvest is carried out by hand

macerated on skins for more than 4 weeks with very gentle extraction using pump overs with a little punching down at the end of ferment to free the last sugar in the skins and fermented in tulip shaped concrete tanks

I think we have worked the aromatic side in a more interesting way than typical Spanish ciders

literally ‘the Gold of Bussia

Snake & Herring ‘Blue Monday’ Grenache/Mataro/ Shiraz Frankland River 2018 1959 The harvest is carried outThe 2018 season was one of the best growing seasons for the past 20 years. An ideal spring was followed by a mild yet sunny summer which ripened all the reds deep into April without disease pressure. Crops were below average which led helped ripening and concentration of fruit flavor. The 2018 Blue Monday is defined by the raspberry and satsuma succulence of the Grenache; the Mourvedre adds a meaty, earthy mineral backbone and the Shiraz is high noted