2022 Primrose Vineyard Ebenezer Mataro
($38.25 Wine Club price)
100% Bush Vine Mataro grown on the famous Schulz Primrose Vineyard in the Ebenezer sub-region in the Northern Barossa. Hand-picked, hand-sorted, de-stemmed and open-fermented before spending an extended period on skins. Matured in a single seasoned French oak hogshead before being bottled unfined and unfiltered in eary 2023.
The 2022 Primrose Vineyard Mataro, like its sibling mataro’s is fruit driven, showing predominately dark fruits, earth, spice and tar. Quite rich for a Mataro curtsey of the higher altitude section of the vineyard and a truly exceptional season. It has little or no oak influence and is a very powerful expression of the wonderful fruit that we received in the winery in the cool 2022 vintage. A wine to be enjoyed over the next 10-15 years.
($38.25 Wine Club price)
100% Bush Vine Mataro grown on the famous Schulz Primrose Vineyard in the Ebenezer sub-region in the Northern Barossa. Hand-picked, hand-sorted, de-stemmed and open-fermented before spending an extended period on skins. Matured in a single seasoned French oak hogshead before being bottled unfined and unfiltered in eary 2023.
The 2022 Primrose Vineyard Mataro, like its sibling mataro’s is fruit driven, showing predominately dark fruits, earth, spice and tar. Quite rich for a Mataro curtsey of the higher altitude section of the vineyard and a truly exceptional season. It has little or no oak influence and is a very powerful expression of the wonderful fruit that we received in the winery in the cool 2022 vintage. A wine to be enjoyed over the next 10-15 years.
($38.25 Wine Club price)
100% Bush Vine Mataro grown on the famous Schulz Primrose Vineyard in the Ebenezer sub-region in the Northern Barossa. Hand-picked, hand-sorted, de-stemmed and open-fermented before spending an extended period on skins. Matured in a single seasoned French oak hogshead before being bottled unfined and unfiltered in eary 2023.
The 2022 Primrose Vineyard Mataro, like its sibling mataro’s is fruit driven, showing predominately dark fruits, earth, spice and tar. Quite rich for a Mataro curtsey of the higher altitude section of the vineyard and a truly exceptional season. It has little or no oak influence and is a very powerful expression of the wonderful fruit that we received in the winery in the cool 2022 vintage. A wine to be enjoyed over the next 10-15 years.
Technical Tasting Notes
2022 PRIMROSE VINEYARD MATARO
GROWING SEASON
The 2022 Barossa Valley vintage will be remembered as the second almost faultless season in a row after an equally impressive although different 2021 vintage. Both Vintages were cool, the coolest since 2002. Good spring rains meant that we entered the growing season with good soil moisture levels. A warm dry growing season followed, with balanced and healthy canopies producing an average crop of extremely high quality fruit. A pigeon pair, perhaps the best two since 1990/1991 if not longer. The good news is that flavours and colours (in reds) and the vibrancy and lift in the whites are incredible. Overall quality is exceptional. Another extremely good Barossa vintage in the making.
TASTING NOTE
Our Single Block 'Vineyard Series' Primrose Mataro from the excellent 2022 vintage comes from a tiny patch of dry grown bush vine Mataro in the hills of the famed Schulz Primrose Vineyard in the Ebenezer district of the Northern Barossa. The soil in this section of the vineyard is rich ironstone over clay. The wine has all the hallmarks of a Northern Barossa Mataro grown on ironstone soils - bright purple red hue, powerful fruit, earth and mineral flavours, medium bodied, the fruit balanced by abundant natural tannins and line of natural acidity that is a characteristic of the season. Although drinking well on release will surely improve in the cellar.
SPECIFICATIONS
Region: Barossa Valley
Sub Region: Ebenezer
Variety: Mataro
Alcohol: 14.5%
Production: 400 bottles
Cellaring: 10 years+
Winemaker: Andrew Seppelt
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Reviews
2022 Vineyard Series Primrose Vineyard Mataro
2025 Wine Companion (DAVE BROOKES)
93 Points - Old-vine mataro from the Schulz Vineyard in Ebenezer. Deep crimson with aromas of deep dark plum and black cherry fruits with a nice undercurrent of varietal garrigue and moody spice. It's got a meaty edge, that's for sure. Some dried citrus rind and blossom under there too, flowing dark with notes of dried meats, buckshot ironstone and earth, silty tannins sitting proud and a touch of sour cherry as it slides away.
2021 Vineyard Series Primrose Vineyard Mataro
2024 Wine Companion (James Halliday)
94 Points - Sourced from a tiny, dry-grown bush block on the Schulz vineyard in the Ebenezer district. A very attractive wine, supple and long, plum and blackberry fruit the drivers within a perfectly balanced palate. With only 55 dozen made, there's no showboating here.
Vintage Journal (Andrew Caillard)
93 Points - Deep crimson in colour with intense dark cherry, blackberry aromas with graphite, mocha complexity. Beautifully concentrated on the palate with lovely dense ripe dark cherry, blackberry fruits, al dente textures and underlying mocha, espresso oak complexity. The finish is chocolaty and fruit sweet with juicy acidity lengthening the palate. Very good winemaking.
Now–2030
2019 Vineyard Series Primrose Vineyard Mataro
2021 Wine Companion (James Halliday)
97 Points - Sourced from a tiny patch of bush vines dry-grown on the Schulz Vineyard in Ebenezer. An extremely powerful, full-bodied wine that manages to also have a juicy lift and a mix of spicy/earthy tannins. Mataro seldom scales the heights, exemplified by this wine in ‘19. 14% alc. Drink to 2049.
Q-Wine Reviews - www.qwinereviews.com (Steve Leszczynski)
95 Points - Precision. Not a hair out of place. Mataro bliss.
Sleek, this wine slips through the mouth with ease. Sit down and have a glass of wine with winemaker Andrew Seppelt and his drink of choice is always Mataro. He loves the stuff and his passion for the variety is evident here.
From Ebenezer, a Barossa sub-region to the north, the fruit is grown on bush vines.
Scents of sauteed mushrooms, truffles, puffs of earth, popcorn kernels and red plum skins all reach out with open hands. Silky in delivery, it's meaty with dusty earth feels and that charcuterie board delish factor. Beautifully balanced and delicately spiced, its persistence is an absolute delight. Mataro heaven you could say. Go here and give me all of it!
Drink to eight years+
