2019 Loosen Barry Wolta Wolta Riesling

For the 2021 Loosen Barry Wolta Wolta Riesling, five tonnes of Riesling was hand harvested and sorted on 27th February 2019 from Block 18 (planted in 1979) at our Lodge Hill vineyard. We harvested the fruit at 12 .0 Baumé. Fruit was stored in a cold room overnight to bring the temperature below 10˚C. Once destemmed and crushed, the fruit was then pressed into stainless steel for 12 hours to settle, before being racked into the 3,000 litre German oak ‘Fuder’ cask. The light lees were racked which assisted a wild ferment to take place after five days.
Fermentation took four weeks with the temperature maintained at 18˚C. When residual sugar was below 10g/L, cooling was turned on to arrest the fermentation at 5g/L, achieving sugar-acid balance. The wine then rested on full yeast lees for 22 months at 10˚C before being transferred to stainless steel where it sat on fine lees at 1˚C for a further month. Our 2019 Wolta Wolta was bottled on 27th January 2021 and, after spending a year in bottle, was released on 1st April 2022.