Grenache Mataro Shiraz “Avatar” 2022 – Teusner

Grenache Mataro Shiraz “Avatar” Teusner is made from hand-picked old vine fruit. All the parcels were fermented separately. Mataro and Grenache were allowed to get a bit warmer during the fermentation, to reduce the risk of confected notes. This also helped to preserve the savoury characteristics of the Grenache. Open fermentation took place over seven days below 25°C with manual pump-overs twice daily. Grenache Mataro Shiraz “Avatar” Teusner was pressed through a slotted screen beg press to oak, where it spent 18 months barrel ageing in seasoned French and American oak hogsheads.

Sourced from the perimeter of the Barossa. The key here is the age of the Grenache vines, which are between 65 to 130 years old and are mostly in bush vine format. The fruit is sourced from several subregions, Ebeneezer has the oldest vines – the exact age of the vines is not 100% certain, suffice to say that three generations have seen them grow!