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Happ's PF Red
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Tasting Notes |
The sheer joy of ripe, red grapes, brilliant, bright, burgundy purple plums, currants and blackberries.
Background: This is the age of concern for the environment and for ourselves. 'Chemicals' are suspect, whether in the soil, the crops, or by way of processing additives. The fear is that the chemical ends up in us, and as they used to say, "does us a mischief".
Australia's aridity and its isolation helps to keep us free of fungal diseases and old world insect nasties. We, and our plants, probably breathe the cleanest air on this planet. These are significant natural advantages.
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Australian winemakers are at the forefront of winemaking technology in producing clean, attractive, fruity wines. The most important contributing element to this phenomenon is well-ripened grapes and the use of non chemical options to maintain the health of a wine prior to bottling such as minimal handling, refrigeration, inert gas and filtration. It is possible to make wine with very low levels of preservative and in the case of P. F. Red we have a wine so carefully made that it requires none at all.
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At last, a wine I can drink, a preservative free wine.
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Some of us have acquired a sensitivity to sulphur dioxide and this wine is one that will not inflame that condition
The Blend: P. F. Red is a blend of good stuff like Pinot Noir,
Tempranillo, Grenache and Tinta Cao. The really essential ingredient, for the sake of early drinking, is the Pinot Noir.
Current
Vintage 2005
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