SIREN THE EMPRESS CHILLED RED 2024

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"The Empress signifies a strong connection with our femininity. Femininity translates in many ways – elegance, sensuality, fertility, creative expression, nurturing – and is necessary for creating balance in both men and women. The Empress calls on you to connect with your feminine energy. Create beauty in your life. Connect with your senses through taste, touch, sound, smell and sight. Draw on these senses to experience pleasure and deep fulfilment. The Empress signifies abundance, as the Mother Earth archetype, The Empress urges you to venture out into nature to ground your energy and be in flow with the earth.

Light, bright with a bit of bite! Ruby red in colour with a floral albeit savoury aromas. A luscious, juicy red bursting with raspberries, cranberries, tart cherries and black doris plums on the palate. Finishes dry with a savoury finish with fine, grippy tannins.

Marlborough.Hand-picked Abel and 10/5 pinot noir clones.  80% whole bunch 20% destemmed. On skins for 7 days in tanks before pressing and finishing wild fermentation in tank.  Transferred to old oak puncheons for 12 months to rest before bottling. Certified organic fruit. Unfined. Unfiltered. Vegan. Minimal sulphites added at bottling. Bottled under cork and wax."

Reviews for the 2023 vintage below…

93/100 Stephen Wong MW, The Real Review, February 2023 (2023 Vintage)
"Pale, clear garnet. Candied cherry and raspberry nose with a light dusting of icing sugar and horopito. The palate echoes the nose, adding a vibrant, zingy root beer flavour as the fruit explodes across the palate. Show-stopping intensity with very fine tannin, this is somewhere between a light red and the most flavoursome dry rosé you have ever had. A clean, New Wave 'vin de soif' which is at its best lightly chilled. There is ample concentration and substance here to reward those adventurous enough to cellar it for a few years."