Winery: Chateau Tanunda

Chateau Tanunda The Three Graces

Vintage 2009

Winemaker Tim Smith

The ‘Three Graces’ is a classic Bordeaux blend of three of the worlds most noble varieties.

47% Cabernet Sauvignon / 36% Cabernet Franc / 17% Merlot

Bouquet A classic lifted nose of blackcurrant cassis and cedar wood with hints of black olive, pepper, violets and tobacco.

Palate The palate is an integrated blend of flavours, svelte and seamless showing prominent blackcurrant fruit delicately interwoven with tabacco leaf, capsicum, black pepper and savoury French oak giving the wine an undeniable elegance and generous length.

Winemaking Report Arriving in small individual crates the hand picked, uncrushed grapes were destalked (separating berries from the bunch) and placed into small stainless steel open fermenters. A cultured yeast was used to start the fermentation and the tanks were pumped over daily spending a total of 7 days on skins at 22 - 28° C. The skins were gently pressed in the JLB Vaslin Bucher press and the individual parcels were matured separately for three months before being racked, blended and undergoing a further 20 months in a mixture of French oak hogsheads & Puncheons.

Heritage
Château Tanunda was established in 1890 and is a heritage icon of Australia’s wine industry. This grand building, its magnificent gardens and vineyards are owned by the Geber family who continue the century old tradition of fine winemaking.

Vineyard All of the grapes for the Three Graces are hand picked from selected low yielding vineyards in the Barossa and Eden Valleys.

HAND PICKED, BASKET PRESSED AND UNFILTERED

• Silver Medal
  Score: Silver Medal
  Review by: 2011 International Wine and Spirit Competition
• Premium Gold
  Score: Premium Gold
  Review by: 2011 Berlin Wine Trophy

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