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2021 Delinquente Hell Arinto
Production information
2021 Delinquente Hell Arinto
2021 Hell Series Arinto
Small batch. Single vineyard. Handmade.
Varietal Composition : 100% Arinto
Region : Riverland
Vineyard : Bassham Family Organic Vineyard, Barmera.
Yeast : Wild
Bottling Date : January 2022
Release Date : March 2022
Barrel or Stainless : Both Seasoned French Barriques & Slavonian oak cask
Harvest : February 2021
Soil : Red sandy loam over limestone
Output : 2,500 bottles
Alcohol : 11%
Malolactic Fermentation : Yes
Winemakers Comments : 2021 was the kindest vintage we have experienced in 9 years of Delinquente – a La Nina cycle bringing good spring rainfall, mild summer temperatures and cool crisp nights. The Bassham Family Organic and Biodynamic vineyard, bursting with natural vitality and life, took full advantage of Mother Nature's gift and produced beautiful quality fruit – sweet, layered and with piercing acidity – and plenty of it too.
The Hell Series wines represent our experimentation with winemaking techniques, and allow the fruit to express different, unique and compelling characteristics.
Native to Portugal, the small berries of Arinto contain delicious mix of fruit flavors, and most importantly, a piercing acidity that stands up to the hot climate of the Riverland. The fruit for this wine was hand-picked and immediately de-stemmed into one tonne open fermenters, where the wine fermented on skins until sugar dry – about 14 days. Ferments were hand plunged twice daily, and pumped over twice during fermentation, to gently extract all that lovely tannin and savory characters. The wine was then pressed and aged in seasoned French Barriques and 1200L Slavonian oak cask for 8 months, racked and blended (50/50%) prior to bottling. This wine sees no additions of any kind save for a small amount of SO2 at bottling.
Tasting Note : The higher yielding year saw larger, juicier berries and subsequently the wine this year is less amber, more skinsy white. The savoury salty elements are still there but more in balance with the citrus, stone fruit profile. Second year oak allows the wine to breathe, and combined with the salty tannin, gives the wine length and persistence that allows it to stand up to aperitif style drinking or with hearty Mediterranean influenced food.
Award/Score : Wine Front 90 (2020 Vintage)
Food Pairing : Mediterranean influenced food.
2021 Hell Series Arinto
Small batch. Single vineyard. Handmade.
Varietal Composition : 100% Arinto
Region : Riverland
Vineyard : Bassham Family Organic Vineyard, Barmera.
Yeast : Wild
Bottling Date : January 2022
Release Date : March 2022
Barrel or Stainless : Both Seasoned French Barriques & Slavonian oak cask
Harvest : February 2021
Soil : Red sandy loam over limestone
Output : 2,500 bottles
Alcohol : 11%
Malolactic Fermentation : Yes
Winemakers Comments : 2021 was the kindest vintage we have experienced in 9 years of Delinquente – a La Nina cycle bringing good spring rainfall, mild summer temperatures and cool crisp nights. The Bassham Family Organic and Biodynamic vineyard, bursting with natural vitality and life, took full advantage of Mother Nature's gift and produced beautiful quality fruit – sweet, layered and with piercing acidity – and plenty of it too.
The Hell Series wines represent our experimentation with winemaking techniques, and allow the fruit to express different, unique and compelling characteristics.
Native to Portugal, the small berries of Arinto contain delicious mix of fruit flavors, and most importantly, a piercing acidity that stands up to the hot climate of the Riverland. The fruit for this wine was hand-picked and immediately de-stemmed into one tonne open fermenters, where the wine fermented on skins until sugar dry – about 14 days. Ferments were hand plunged twice daily, and pumped over twice during fermentation, to gently extract all that lovely tannin and savory characters. The wine was then pressed and aged in seasoned French Barriques and 1200L Slavonian oak cask for 8 months, racked and blended (50/50%) prior to bottling. This wine sees no additions of any kind save for a small amount of SO2 at bottling.
Tasting Note : The higher yielding year saw larger, juicier berries and subsequently the wine this year is less amber, more skinsy white. The savoury salty elements are still there but more in balance with the citrus, stone fruit profile. Second year oak allows the wine to breathe, and combined with the salty tannin, gives the wine length and persistence that allows it to stand up to aperitif style drinking or with hearty Mediterranean influenced food.
Award/Score : Wine Front 90 (2020 Vintage)
Food Pairing : Mediterranean influenced food.
