2024 Snap Bastardo Rosé
2024 Snap Bastardo Rosé
Our second release Rosé and using Bastardo, a variety that originates from Portugal. McLaren Vale’s climate is identical to southern Portugal. We loved the Umami character of Bastardo in our dry-red style “Blind Man’s Bluff” so much that using the variety as the base component for our Rosé was an easy decision. The wine is light and soft with flavours of nougat, brioche and strawberry
TASTES LIKE Strawberries and hazelnut nougat and brioche, with a glossy creaminess on the finish. Bright, bouncy and fragrant.
DRINK WITH Fresh goat cheese salad or a festive crab feed on the beach
VEGAN FRIENDLY
MARCUS ELLIS HALLIDAY There’s something appealingly brave about opting for the Portuguese name for this grape, which is more in your face than the mellifluous French equivalent, trousseau. This does the expected rosé things, though with a swagger of its own, strolling through strawberry, tamarind and orange oil, along with an appealing saltiness and an undercurrent of dry spice. The mid plays gently creamy, slippery and dry, a gentle pithiness closing out. 93 Points
CAMPBELL MATTINSON WINE FRONT This is pale, pure and dry but boy does it have character. It’s delicious. It’s salty, strawberried, ripped with aniseed, spicy and more. It has a crackle to it, texturally, and pop to it, flavour wise, and yet it’s bare-foot-through-the-aussie-bush-in-summer dry as well. Fabulous drinking. 93 POINTS