2023 Ravensworth Estate Gamay

A new wine enters the Ravensworth matrix this year, with just the second ever release of an Estate grown Gamay by Bryan Martin.

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This is just the second-ever release of Bryan Martin's estate-grown Gamay. This versatile French variety strikes a lovely balance, offering more weight and colour than Ravensworth's Tumbarumba version, thanks to the warmer Canberra District climate where it is grown.

Crafted by one of the leading winemakers in the Canberra district, on the Ravensworth estate near Murrumbateman, this wine underwent partial carbonic maceration for 10 days (ala Beaujolais), followed by traditional fermentation and maturation in a mix of new and used French oak barriques for 12 months. 

The result is a bright, fresh red wine with a little more structure and savouriness than its Tumbarumba counterpart. It’s light, fruity, and delightfully easy-drinking.

Duck pancakes with plum sauce and a glass of this would be best mates. 

"Go forth! Crisp and clean, bright and fresh. Tart cherries, cranberry, truffle, brambly blackberry and some kombu-umami-like characters. Lighter weight and fruity, not quite savoury but that herbal lilt is pleasing and counters the red fruit swishes well. Easy drinking style, refreshing and cool. Not particularly complex, but all the pleasure elements in place."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

92 points - "Go forth!

Crisp and clean, bright and fresh. Tart cherries, cranberry, truffle, brambly blackberry and some kombu-umami-like characters. Lighter weight and fruity, not quite savoury but that herbal lilt is pleasing and counters the red fruit swishes well. Easy drinking style, refreshing and cool. Not particularly complex, but all the pleasure elements in place." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

The ring in as its the only non-2022 wine in this release. Only our second release of theis highly wort French variety that can make wine from almost rosé like right up to big tannic reds. This one sits in the middle. More weight and colour than our beloved Tumbarumba version as we are a little warmer and drier down here.

Certainly carries the beautiful fragrance the variety is know for as well as acidity and light texture.

Technical Notes
Ravensworth Estate Gamay
Collection: Estate
Vintage: 2023
GI: Canberra Disctrict
Vineyard source: Estate
Harvest date: 17th April
Processing: Partial carbonic maceration for 10 days, then plunged down until dry. Press and matured on new and used French oak barriques
Élevage: 12 Months
Vessels: Taransaud barriques
Vintage conditions: 2022
Another cool year, very wet early that kept us on our toes in the vineyard. Was a year for patience, faith and gumboots.
Bottling date: April 2024
Production: 85 dozen
Cellaring: mid term 5-7 years
Something interesting: Carbonc maceration, heavily associated with this variety, Uses a emzymatic fermentation rather than yeast which happens inside the berry and can consume alomost 1/2 the sugars before yeast takes over as the berries break apart.
Drink with: Duck and other game.

Price Bracket $41 to $50
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Gamay
Country Australia
Region Canberra
Australian State NSW
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 92
Alcohol 12%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure Screw Cap

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Bryan Martin is one of the most creative and inquisitive winemakers we've ever met. After leaving his position as winemaker alongside Tim Kirk at Canberra regional flagbearer, Clonakilla, Bryan went full steam in on his own label Ravensworth, which has firmly hit cult status amongst collectors.

He and his wife Jocelyn have a beautiful property outside of Murrumbateman which is home to all of their excellent Estate wines and Bryan also searches surrounding vineyards and out to the Hilltops region to compile his excellent value Regional series of wines. Sustainability and an unwavering commitment to quality across the board underpin the entire operation at Ravensworth. Perhaps best known for his benchmark Shiraz Viognier and textural Rieslings, Bryan is also arguably the country's best producer of Sangiovese and is a true master of the dark art of skin-contact whites.

Bryan embodies everything we love about small artisanal Australian producers. He is humble, irreverent, committed to the pursuit of excellence and always looking to explore. Quite simply, if you see a Ravensworth wine anywhere, you should buy it.

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