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Ochota Barrels

2024

‘Botanicals of the Basket Range’

Aromatized Wine   |   Adelaide Hills - Australia
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About

Vermouth-inspired, Basket Range-bred, Ochota family created…Botanicals is a wine that truly has no boundaries or class and gentile words lack meaning when attempting to summarize this elixir, so let the family dictate more eloquently this vinous concoction.  In 2024, this wine is a blend of Gewurztraminer, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, and Gamay (a deviation from an entirely Pinot Noir based 2023). It was always a labor of love for Amber and Taras and continuing this wine was always in the plan. Amber’s words sum up this wine perfectly, “so…. this vintage, we once again crushed some delicious grapes from our mate’s vineyards up the road in peramangk country … the children and I then took our little baskets and wandered around our garden, picking organic herbs, flowers, fruits and leaves… we submerged these into a continuous ferment throughout vintage…. this wine is a true taste of vintage 2024 and summer here in basket range…. some of the organic botanicals infused this year were…. lavender…. rose petals…. wormwood…. bay leaves…. meyer lemon zest…. thyme…. grapefruit zest…. spearmint…. lemon balm…. Rosemary…. sage…. lemon verbena….”

The fruit was hand-picked, and each lot saw about a day of skin contact before being pressed off saignée style to the stainless steel variable-capacity tank. As varieties came in at different times, a continuous fermentation was carried out over the course of a few weeks, with two weeks of botanical infusion. Gravity was used to rack the wine off the botanicals and into two seasoned French barriques, where it remained for about five months. It was then bottled directly from barrel without anything removed nor added other than a small sulfur addition. No fining or filtering.

Stats

  • Grapes: 33% Gewurztraminer - 23% Pinot Meunier - 22% Pinot Noir - 22% Gamay
  • Vineyard: Uva (Pinot Meunier) - Scanlon (Pinot Noir) - Eureka (Gamay & Gewurztraminer)
  • Vine Age: 20-years-old
  • Soil Type: Primarily red clay and clay loams over granite, limestone, and quartz
  • Viticulture: Practicing organic
  • Fermentation: Native – open-top variable capacity tank (saignée is taken from skin contact ferments as they are processed in the winery to create a continuous ferment)
  • Skin Contact: 1 day on skins before 2 weeks of botanical maceration
  • Aging: 4 months in used French barriques
  • Alcohol: 12.7%
  • pH: 3.42
  • Total Acidity: 5.7 g/L
  • Total SO2: 60 ppm
  • Total Production: 72 cases
  • UPC: None

Tasting Note

A bright, fresh, herbal tea of a wine. There is a defined floral theme this year, with about a third of the base wine coming from Gewurztraminer. Aromas of lavender, rose, lemon balm, thyme, bay leaves, and rosemary move with ease from the nose to the palate. So gentle, but the acidity is playful. What a delight.

Press & Reviews

James Suckling

93

"A unique blend of saignee red and white wines from one vintage that are steeped with botanicals harvested from the estate garden. An unfortified vermouth that is bright red in color with vibrant acidity and aromas of rose petals, orange peel, wormwood and wet bark. A wonderful aperitif. Delicious. Drink or hold. Screw cap."
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Ochota Barrels

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Adelaide Hills

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Australia

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