With vintage 2012 now put to bed, its time to look back over the last 4 months and the wines it produced.
While 2012 showed a second ‘la nina’ pattern (wet cold conditions) in the east, Western Australia had another warm dry vintage.
In the winery we we able to pick both Woodlands vineyards at optimum ripeness, with only the last four to five tonnes being picked with rain approaching.
In terms of vintage weather, at Woodlands we do not believe ‘the hotter the better’. Very hot early vintages in Margaret River can ripen sugar before tannin, leading to rough astringent tannins. Our 2012, in comparison to warmer vintages such as 2007 and 2011, has softer finer tannins as a result of the summer being warm and dry, but never too hot.
With all the wines now resting in barrel, we now turn our attention to bottling our 2011 wines, and trying to stay out of the infamous Margaret River rain!
Image from Margaret River wine
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