Rockford Wines - 'P. S. Marion' Tawny

Rockford Wines - 'P. S. Marion' Tawny

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At Rockford we're committed to keeping the best of the traditional wine trade alive and sharing this with our customers. It’s strange to think that we may never get to blend and bottle some of the fortified parcels we made this year for our aged Tawny. We are the caretakers of these wines and only the passing of time ensures their flavours concentrate and metamorphose from a spirity grape juice into a viscous concentrated blend of raisins and marzipan. Aging in old wooden barrels under a hot tin roof is the only way to create this form of wine alchemy. The many years we allow the components to age encourages the flavours to slowly concentrate and develop into a rich and luscious traditional Barossa Tawny. The final blend has an average age of more than fifteen years - Rockfordwines.com.au

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Rockford Wines

Rockford is a small boutique wine producer based in South Australia’s Barossa Valley. Founder and winemaker, Robert O’Callaghan belongs to a genre of visionary winemakers that include Max Schubert, Peter Lehmann, Jeffrey Grosset, Brian Croser and David Hohnen. His protégés include Chris Ringland and Dave Powell. Rockford wines have had a profound influence on winemaking philosophy and wine style in the Barossa. Providing the inspiration for a whole generation of winemakers ‘the Rockford school’ embraces the inherent qualities of old vine Shiraz: the physicality of winemaking where muscle and personal touch transform process into an art-form; the traditional tools of trade (basket press, open fermenter) and the complementary nuances of American and French oak maturation. Best known for the Rockford Basket Press Shiraz, Rockford also produces a handful of top quality wines from old vine fruit sourced from selected growers across the Barossa Valley.

 

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Grenache / Mataro

 

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The Barossa Valley

Colonel William Light, the South Australian colony’s Surveyor-General, named the Barossa in 1837 after the site of an English victory over the French in the Spanish Peninsular War. In the mid-1800’s Silesian and English immigrants settled in the area. The Barossa itself comprises two distinct sub-regions: Eden Valley and the warmer Barossa Valley floor at 270m.The Barossa Valley enjoys a warm Mediterranean climate characterised by hot dry summers and relatively low rainfall. Cool sea breezes from the Gulf of St Vincent modify the temperature, however hot northerly winds can occasionally dominate creating considerable vine stress. Many older established vineyards are dry-grown, but supplementary irrigation is also extensively used. The valley is comprised of rich brown soils and alluvial sands. A long history of uninterrupted viticulture in the area means the Barossa valley is home to Australia’s largest concentration of old-vine Shiraz, Grenache and Mourvèdre.