The Strapper GSM

Enjoy with corn and zucchini fritters topped with a smoky tomato relish or southern fried chicken ribs and jalapeno mayonnaise.

A wet winter led into a dry spring, resulting in smaller berries, bunches and crop levels. The reduced berry and crop size has produced grapes with great aromatics and flavour. It was a long and mild summer with very few heat spikes and wonderfully cool nights. The long ripening of the three varieties resulted in a wine of great aroma and flavour.

Matured for 12 months in new French oak hogsheads and puncheons (12%), balance in older French, Hungarian and American oak hogsheads,French oak puncheons and barriques.

The three GSM varieties are picked separately for this wine and wild fermented in small batches – some in oak and some in stainless steel. The subsequent wines are aged in a mixture of large and small oak vats, puncheons and smaller oak barrels to allow the wines to develop without the influence of too much oak flavour and to increase textures and complexity.

Established in 1849 Yalumba is Australia’s most historic family owned wine company. It remains fiercely independent and extremely progressive through the generational ownership by the Hill-Smith family. Yalumba’s longevity and success is a result of patience collaboration and progressive thinking. There is foresight to embrace the natural terroir to craft wines with individual character and a sense of purpose a spirit to reinvest in the land upon which it operates and knowledge to behave as a leader in the industry. It is committed to sharing stories of provenance gathered over more than 168 years of history of family winemaking.