La Petit Mort Amphora Saperavi 2017 Queensland Granite Belt
La Petit Mort Amphora Saperavi 2017 Queensland Granite BeltLa Petit Mort Amphora Saperavi 2017
This macabre, mysterious wine comes from the Granite Belt in the far south of Queensland.
After a 195 day long slumber in amphora, this inky black Georgian variety finds a sensuality and a seductive nature when fermented in earthenware as opposed to wood.
It’s rich but fresh, a guilty pleasure to be enjoyed over a candle lit dinner with a significant other.
La Petit Mort Rose 2017 Queensland Granite Belt
La Petit Mort Rose 2017 Queensland Granite BeltThe 2017 La Petite Mort Rosé is made from a process called the saignee method, meaning to “bleed”. The juice is only left on skins for a very short period, prior to fermentation, extracting plenty of flavour, but little colour. And by golly, there is so much flavour here, yet the palate is completely dry, elegant and ethereal. Bursting with the sweetest red fruits, spice, cream and a savouriness that is a lovely foil to the sweet fruit. We talk of Rose as a picnic wine, and so it is, but this one has the character and personality to carry itself with more serious food also. One that will go a few years too.
La Petite Mort Marsanne 2017 Queensland Granite Belt
La Petite Mort Marsanne 2017 Queensland Granite BeltStill very much in its youth, the wine shows pretty floral notes of honeysuckle and beeswax with the crisp green melon and nectarine fruit that we fought so hard to preserve. The oak lends savouriness and spicy cedar to the honey end of the spectrum. Over the tongue, this wine has a waxy viscosity balanced against crisp acidity and held up by a great back bone of minerality (think of smooth wet creek pebbles). All of the afore mentioned aromas continue onto the palate but come off just a little richer and with more body than the nose might suggest.
La Petite Mort VMR 2018 Queensland Granite Belt
La Petite Mort VMR 2018 Queensland Granite BeltThis wine is most definitely for the adventurous palate. A rich, honeyed peach aroma with swirls of rancio browned apples on the nose belies a dry and mineral palate with surprising grip and structure. The fruit continues in the background with dried peach and pear playing second fiddle to the complex oxidative character that seems to be synonymous with white wine in amphora. This is wine of a time-gone-by.
