NGERINGA Pink Sémillon 2022
A textural Rosé made from Pink Sémillon grapes. Flavours of blood orange and pithy grapefruit … if you like a negroni, you should love this.
Ngeringa’s three vineyard sites total 5 hectares and are on easterly and westerly aspects at the base of the Mount Barker Summit. They are part of a biodiverse, 75 hectare biodynamic farm on the south-eastern edge of the Adelaide Hills. Mount Barker Summit defines these sites ranging from 330 to 420 meters of elevation. Our vineyard soils are loam over clay, with varying influences of ironstone and micaceous schist. Ngeringa has been certified biodynamic since the late 1980’s with no chemical sprays, fertilizers or insecticides applied.
Fermented on skins for two weeks to bring out extra flavour, colour and structure. Matured in barrel for a few months only, before bottling in July 2021. No enzymes, no fining.
Closure: Crown Cap
ABV: 12.5%
Winemaker: Erinn Klein
Grape(s): Pink Semillon
GI: Adelaide Hills (Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia)
Vintage 2022 was set up by a milder spring and summer with no severe heat spikes or extended hotter periods. Spring and early summer were wetter than usual resulting it good soil moisture and thus requiring only minimal irrigation just before picking. Flowering and set were good, if we don’t compare them to the dream conditions we had for the 2021 vintage! We had a few disease challenges with warm, wet weather, particularly one event where the vines had wet leaves for three days around the 10th of January. Our vine health was good and therefore resilient to these challenging few days. Finally, a long and slow ripening with cool conditions over harvest produced great delicate wines across all varieties.