Spinifex 'Mietta' Rose 2020

“Pete and his partner Magali Gely operate what I think is the best new-wave of small-scale Barossa wine companies to emerge at the beginning of the 21st century… These weren’t big, blockbuster, showy wines designed to impress. They were wines that managed to take the best of the Barossa’s sometimes forgotten varietal traditions and fuse them onto a very European flavour sensibility.” Max Allen, The Future Makers

A new Rosé in the Spinifex stable.  Unlike the Mataro- and Grenache-driven Spinifex Rosé, the Miette is crafted entirely from Pinot Noir. It's sourced from a single vineyard on red clay over limestone in the southern Barossa foothills--just down the road from the famed Steingarten vineyard. It's cropped from a tiny parcel of Pinot immediately adjacent to a small bush-vine Mataro vineyard that Pete Schell has been making cracking rosé from for the last six years or so. Pete notes that he's been in the habit of sneaking across and tasting the Pinot Noir fruit whenever he's been up there checking on the Mataro, and, ever curious, in early 2020 he asked grower Ronnie to hand pick a couple of tonnes for him.