Yelland & Papps

The Wine

Wine         2017 Second Take Mataro

Vintage    2017  

Range       Second Take 

Varietal    100% Mataro                

Region      100% Barossa Valley

Bottles Made  1330

Winemaker        Michael Papps

Release Date

• Clones?  Unknown
• Year Planted?   2000
• Organic/biodynamic? No
• Soil? Heavy loam/red clay
• Direction/Aspect of vineyard?  East/West
• Elevation?  220m
• Hand or machine picked?  Hand
• whole bunch fermented? 67% Whole Bunch
• Sorting (if done) by hand or machine?  Berry or bunch sorted?  None
• Co-fermented or blended after fermentation?  After
• Open, tank, roto or barrel fermented?  Barrel and Open fermenter
• Wild or cultured yeast?  Wild
• Total time on skins, including cold soak, fermentation add post fermentation maceration  12-18 days
• Basket or Bag Press?  Basket
• Pressed direct to barrel or via tank?  Tank
• Oak or Tank maturation?  Oak
• Percentage of new oak, and country of origin of oak?  100% French Oak, 17% new
• Length of time in oak?  8 months
• pH  3.58
• TA  6.70
• Alc  13.5%

Awards & Reviews

• 94 - Steve Leszcynski - Qwine
  Perfectly pitched, damn this is a super expressive Mataro. I doubt you'll find any Mataro as perfumed and energetic as this. Straight to the top of the dais for this sexy number.
  
  Fruit expression all the way here. 67% whole bunch fermented, 14 days on skins, in barrel for 7 months (17% new French), unfined and unfiltered.
  
  Sumptuously medium bodied, it's a delectable slurp. Think dark cherries and dark chocolate, Asian spices and pan juices. More time reveals hoisin and aniseed with some blue fruit and cedar tucked in neatly behind. I keep going back to be seduced by violet-like aromas. Weighing in at 13.5%, it's a wine you could easily sip away at all night - and I did, for a couple of nights in fact. Stunning! Scramble for it.
  
  Drink now to five years.
  
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• 92 points - Stuart Robinson - The Vinsomniac
  More of the whole bunch aromatics shining through on initial approach, with the underlying plum and heady dark spice of the variety.
  
  Freshness and vitality - could almost be the Y&P/ 2nd Take watchwords - the nimbleness and fleet-flooted take on Mataro, a style known more for heft, than guile. Fine powdery tannin lay a foundation on which to carry chocolate, dark spice, even toward a little clove.
  
  Fruit peeks its head out, furtively, blueberry even. It’s a delicate slither of a thing. Truly quite remarkable for Barossan Mataro.
  
  http://www.thevinsomniac.com/2018/04/yelland-and-papps-second-take-mataro.html
• 92 - Jane Faulkner - Wine Companion James Halliday 2019
  Cellar to 2024