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1257 Kensington Road NW
1 (403) 283-8000 / atyourservice@kensingtonwinemarket.com
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Escarpment strives to produce wines that capture a unique sense of place. Their home vineyard on Te Muna Road is situated just minutes east of Martinborough village, with 24 hectares of distinctive alluvial gravel, and terraced land stretches out along the banks of the Huangarua River. The soils of the vineyard are alluvial loams that were formed by the Huangarua River over 20,000 years ago. With very deep alluvial gravels now layered over the loams, this composition ensures exceptional drainage, one of the key prerequisites for nurturing and producing premium quality, healthy grape vines.
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One of the great Martinborough vintages, with a warm and dry summer. Yields were incredibly low, due to very poor flowering, but fruit quality was exceptionally high. The fruit is 100% from the Martinborough region, from the famous alluvial terrace and made from grapes grown on our own estate, along with select growers. A mix of clones was individually whole-bunch pressed, with the juice left to settle overnight. It was then transferred to French oak puncheons for fermentation, using indigenous yeast. After fermentation, the wine was aged in barrel for 11 months with 22% new, creating a wine with ripe stone fruit characters, along with a flinty mineral backbone. It is a wine that is accessible in its youth but will also benefit from a few years in bottle.