The Patriarch
The Patriarch Single Bottle Gift Box
2018
The very best of Babich. Poised, powerful, and always at home at the head of the table.
The Patriarch Single Bottle Gift Box
The Patriarch is our flagship red wine crafted in honour of the winery founder and New Zealand wine industry pioneer, Josip Babich. Grown on our ‘Irongate’ vineyard in the Gimblett Gravels of Hawke’s Bay, we apply the very best of over 100 years wine experience and expertise, to make a delightfully complex, elegant and powerful wine, befitting of Josip’s legacy.
Tasting Notes
Light floral/ smoky notes over complex almond, blackberry and plum aromas.
Presents initially with a savoury/umami hit that opens into fruit cake with Christmas spices. Layers fresh berries with black Doris plum. Complex, elegant and dense. Warm and lingering.
Presents initially with a savoury/umami hit that opens into fruit cake with Christmas spices. Layers fresh berries with black Doris plum. Complex, elegant and dense. Warm and lingering.
Winemaker Notes
Select crop thinned parcels of fruit were hand harvested from the Babich Irongate vineyard, then fermented in small open vats and hand plunged. After an extended maceration period the new wines were drained to French oak barriques, to mature. After several rack and returns and extensive tasting trials The Patriarch was blended after 12 months then returned to oak. The wine spent a total of 21 months in oak.
Technical Notes
| Alc | 14.5% |
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| TA | 6.5g/L |
| pH | 3.63 |
| RS | Dry |
Key Information
| First Vintage | 1994 |
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| Region | Gimblett Gravels, Hawke's Bay |
| Fermentation Vessel | Open vats |
| Malolactic | Yes |
| Fining | Gelatine |
