| Producer | Hickinbotham |
| Country | Australia |
| Region | McLaren Vale |
| Varietal | Merlot |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 118685 |
| Size | 750ml |
RNDC
Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard covers a steep cut of country from the ridgetops above the village of Clarendon to the Onkaparinga River in the gorge below. Since its establishment in 1971, the Hickinbotham Vineyard has become a part of Australia’s wine heritage, supplying fruit to produce many of Australia’s greatest wines. Breathing new life into this historic vineyard, winemakers Chris Carpenter and Peter Fraser are forging a new era of Hickinbotham’s prestigious legacy: building upon and honouring the vineyard’s acclaimed pedigree.
2020 VINTAGE SUMMARY
The growing season was affected by a very hot spring, leading to the lowest yields on our record. When the grapes started their ripening process in January, the weather miraculously cooled to a very mild ripening season. This resulted in wonderful concentration of flavour, retention of natural acidity and brightness of fruit, delivering wines with beautiful finesse and balanced tannins. The 2020 Revivalist shows ripe plum, vanilla, olive paste, toast, with integrated tannins supporting huckleberry, orange rind, spice and a lush finish on the palate.
2020 WINEMAKING
Hand-picked, destemmed and whole berry sorted then gently crushed. Cold soaked, native fermentation pumped over daily with a minimum 21 days on skins. Basket pressed with light pressing included in free run directly to 50% new and used fine grained French oak barriques. Matured for 16 months in Barrel. Bottled November 2021.
WINEMAKER
Chris Carpenter
VINEYARD BLOCKS
Blocks 200s (53%) – 1.7-hectare contoured planting from 1976. Moderate depth soil, dark red and dark brown silty light clay, with 2-10% fragments of yellow siltstone, overlaying a whiteish fine-grain siltstone. Yield of 1.5-tonnes per hectare.
Block 103 (35%) – 1-hectare block planted in 1989. A relatively shallow soil. Brown silty clay loam with 20-50% siltstone fragments, over a clay weathered yellow siltstone layer. Below this layer is a bedrock of layered yellow siltstone. Yield of 2.7-tonnes per hectare.
Block 105 (3%) – 0.9-hectare Petit Verdot block planted in 2013.
HARVEST DATES
Merlot Blocks: 200s and 103 | 15 March, 2020
Petit Verdot Block: 105 | 18 March, 2020
COMPOSITION & ANALYSIS
89% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot, 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, <1% Malbec & Cabernet Franc | Alcohol: 13.5% | pH: 3.65 | TA: 5.8 g/L
CELLAR
2022 – 2032
ACCLAIM
93 points – Ned Goodwin, Halliday Wine Companion, May 2022
93 points – Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, July 2022
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