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Pertaringa - McLaren Vale Australia

Known as one of Australia's most prominent boutique wineries, Pertaringa offers superbly crafted wines from the picturesque foothills of McLaren Vale. The name Pertaringa means 'belonging to the hills' and originates from the local indigenous language.

The winery has been owned and operated for three decades by two of the country's most well-known and respected viticulturists, Geoff Hardy and Ian Leask. Their passion and experience in the industry is reflected in Pertaringa's award-winning wines.

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Pertaringa Understudy Cabernet Petit Verdot

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So named as it is just that; this wine is the next in line to our flagship red, the Pertaringa Rifle and Hunt Cabernet Sauvignon. No second fiddle, the Understudy Cabernet is a stylistic contrast to our Rifle and Hunt, and is traditionally vinified before maturation in French and American oak, with a view to immediate drinkability. Although this wine will undoubtedly cellar well, as have previous vintages, like all great Understudys, the 2006 won’t like to be kept waiting in the wings for too long before it performs. 20% Petit Verdot is included in this wine for added perfume, richness and mouth feel.

Pertaringa Understudy Cabernet Petit Verdot shows a deep crimson colour with a perfumed nose of violets and Turkish Delight. This is underscored by blackcurrant fruit and spice with earthy nuances. The palate indulges the senses with luscious rich flavours of blackberry blackcurrant and stewed rhubarb.

Pertaringa Understudy is a well structured wine rounded off by well integrated oak characters and supple tannins.

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Australia | Red | Cabernet Sauvignon | Petit Verdot

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Pertaringa Undercover Shiraz

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In recognition of McLaren Vale’s tradition of supplying other varieties and regions with our finest red grape, this Pertaringa Shiraz is named Undercover. The Undercover is made from old vine Shiraz fruit hand-selected from Pertaringa’s five decade old vineyard and made by winemakers Geoff Hardy and Ben Riggs. Pertaringa hopes that this very bottle of Undercover can reveal the essence of McLaren Vale Shiraz.

Pertaringa Undercover Shiraz is a deep plum ruby colour with exuberant fragrant aromas of dark cherries and blackberries. The palate continues to impress with an array of juicy black fruits framed by savoury elements and balanced by fine grained oak tannins.

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Australia | Red | Shiraz |

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Pertaringa Two Gentlemans Grenache

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Pertaringa’s Two Gentlemens Grenache is a traditional family indulgence but more so, it is a testament to the Hardy and Leask background of producing wines that are to be drunk with food and family. The vineyards that make up Two Gentlemens are planted on the Fleurieu Peninsula between the Southern Ocean and Saint Vincent’s Gulf. The maritime climate is ideal for Grenache grown on own roots in some of the oldest soils on the planet.The 2007 vintage was extremely dry due to the drought that was gripping Australia at this time and harvest occurred earlier than normal. Towards the end of the vintage there was a touch of rain that helped to settle the dust and prevent the vines from completely dehydrating. Yields of our Grenache were down about 40%, but this variety excels in warm conditions. The reduction in weight and bunch numbers for this vintage still produced excellent depth and flavour concentration and the resultant wine is irresistible.

Pertaringa Grencahe shows bright ruby in colour, it reveals luscious red fruits including cherries, strawberries and raspberries with delicate nuances of earthiness on the nose. The palate continues with these bright red fruit aromas, but underscored is a fine sensation of white peppery spice. This elegant and medium-bodied style with almost Pinot Noir like characters is immediately enjoyable as the tannin structure is soft. For all we know, this is one of the icon varieties grown in the McLaren Vale district and deservingly should receive a much bigger following - good for the ones who know!

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Australia | Red | Grenache |

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Pertainga Rigle & Hunt Cabernet Sauvignon

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Pertaringa’s Rifle and Hunt Cabernet is so named as the vineyard and cellars are on the corner of Rifle Range and Hunt Roads, McLaren Vale. The best fruit from the maritime McLaren Vale Hunt and Rifle vineyard is in some vintages augmented with finer, more tightly structured cooler climate Cabernet from the Adelaide Hills. Although officially from another region the K1 vineyard at Kuitpo, also owned by Pertaringa principal Geoff Hardy, is only a few miles away as the crow flies. Traditionally vinified and aged in the best new French oak, Pertaringa is most confident that Rifle & Hunt will cellar well as have previous vintages.

Pertaringa Rifle & Hunt Shiraz is an inky red wine is a rich Cabernet Sauvignon displaying Christmas cake characters including cinnamon, nutmeg and spice on the nose. The palate exhibits complex blackberry, ripe blackcurrant fruit with hints of chocolate and truffle underscored by earthy nuances. The wine is powerful yet restrained with a superb viscosity held by silky tannins

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Australia | Red | Cabernet Sauvignon |

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Pertaringa Over the Top Shiraz

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Over the Top is Pertaringa’s very best Shiraz. Acknowledging the very best site, climate, vines and production techniques with our finest red grape, this Pertaringa Shiraz is named Over the Top to proudly declare our aim to make the finest wine we possibly can and has nothing to do with being bold - which the name might suggest! The very dry season had Pertaringa’s water supplies pushed to the very limit and affected yields quite significantly. We ended up with about 45% less than average of our Shiraz. Drought affected vintages tend to produce smaller berries leading to a higher ratio of the colour and flavour-containing skin to juice which often is beneficial when aiming to produce superior quality wines. Naturally if these conditions become too extreme it may affect the quality outcome. As Pertaringa Wines is ‘boutique’, we are extremely flexible and responsive to such conditions and outstanding wines can be made when in the hands of master viticulturists. Our philosophy is that 70% of the quality factor of a wine is created in the vineyard. In the winemaking process we extended the skin maceration to extract the maximum of the phenolics (tannins, colour, flavour compounds). In addition, emphasis was put on careful aeration during fermentation to soften the tannin structure. Then there is the art of choosing the right barrels - in years like the 07 vintage a lot of accent is put on the fine tannins and spice of the barrels selected to maximise overall structure of the wine. The 2007 Over the Top Shiraz production is therefore very exclusive as quantities are down but looking at the first feedback upon its release - it is another cracker!

Pertaringa Over the Top Shiraz continues its stylistic approach of being exceptionally concentrated, while still remaining a somewhat elegant style - seemingly especially characteristic of the 2007 vintage. Fragrant black- / forest berries with hints of lavender and nutmeg on the nose, followed by layers of fruit including blackberries, plums and dried herbs underscored by savoury notes. The finale continues the harmonious elegance of this style and the pronounced tannin structure will ensure a long life. It’s hard to resist drinking it immediately, but if you have the patience it will reward you. We recommend decanting the wine to encourage maximum drinking pleasure. Drink now until 2020.

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History of Pertaringa

In 1981, the Australian wine industry was in bad shape. Classic old vines, used to make fortified and red wines, were being removed and big companies were pulling out of the industry. Twenty-four year old Geoff Hardy had recently graduated from Roseworthy Agricultural College and had seen how the Californians were grafting old vines over to new varieties such as Chardonnay.

Geoff formed a partnership with Ian Leask who was then managing the Ryecroft vineyards and already had a solid background in viticulture. The Ryecroft vineyards came up for sale and the pair could not resist acquiring the best block - this is how Pertaringa, an Aboriginal name meaning ‘belonging to the hills', was born.

Geoff and Ian's grafted vines, Chardonnay in particular, were an instant success. The Shiraz ironically sold to Hardys, Geoff’s family wine company, to make port and only in exchange for some wine as payment. A far cry from today when Pertaringa’s old Shiraz and Cabernet vines make two of the finest full-bodied reds of the region. Much of the fruit is also highly sought after by many of Australia’s leading wine companies for their award winning wines. The Sauvignon Blanc makes a beautiful and classy white and the Semillon, with the benefit of fermentation in new oak, is a real red wine drinker's white. Each individual Pertaringa wine is made from select parcels of the best fruit from each variety grown in the vineyard.

Grape Varieties at Pertaringa

The Pertaringa vineyard was first established in 1969 primarily with Shiraz, arguably McLaren Vale's most expressive grape variety.

After purchasing the vineyard in 1980, Geoff and Ian decided to move with market demand and graft some of the vines to Chardonnay, which became an instant success. They also expanded the existing vineyard by planting Cabernet Sauvignon and Semillon. Since that time, the vineyard has grown to a total of 32 hectares, still primarily planted with Shiraz.

Shiraz 20.1 ha
Cabernet Sauvignon 1.6ha
Muscat a Petits Grains (Frontignac) 0.5 ha
Riesling 3.2 ha
Sauvignon Blanc 1 ha

The white wines are currently sold for the Australian market only and not exported to the UK

The Pertaringa Vineyards

Pertaringa has always been at the forefront of vineyard innovation, from the development and use of machine harvesting and machine pre-pruning in the late 1970s to the early adoption of soil moisture monitoring equipment and biological and biodynamic pest and disease management.

Since 2006, there has been a ‘back to the future’ approach to the vineyard with the introduction of biodynamics and biological farming techniques. A significant amount of vineyard restructuring has taken place with 15ha of Shiraz being carefully re-worked to its original early 1970s shape, and along with careful shoot thinning, leaf removal and irrigation management, this is resulting in some fantastic fruit coming out of the vineyard.

Richard Leask and the vineyard team have also been working towards the vineyard becoming chemical free. This process has been based around the biodynamic principles of Rudolf Steiner’s 1924 lectures on practical, energetic and spiritual approaches to crop fertility and health, and a biological farming program to control fungal disease where machine weeding is used to control undervine weeds.
The program uses specifically blended soil-applied compost preparations to help the vines' nutritional needs, producing a healthy plant that is much less susceptible to fungal and pest attack and much better equipped to show the true terroir of the vineyard site.