Description
Sussex Squire The Hungry Sheep Mataro 2023
NEW RELEASE – This wine is very moreish with food leaving you always wanting more. Like a well fed sheep… who always wants more. This wine is best suited to slow cooked meats, duck with rich flavours and it will go well with spicy food.
2023 was a cooler vintage that produced an elegant silky expression from a 40 year old dry grown vineyard producing lovely perfumed aromatics with dark fruits of blackberry blueberry, with a floral notes of violets and rose petal overtone balancing the soft tannins by aging in 25% new French oak for 15 months.
It was fermented on skins for 9 days in open fermenters. Skins pumped over and then basket pressed lightly to control tannin extraction. Aged in old & new French oak for 15 months
Food Match: Massaman Beef
Drink Now or Cellar 5 – 8yrs+
Release June 2026 – ONLY 160 Dozen produced.
pH 3.42
TA 6.54
Alc 14.0%
