Vintages Produced: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 , 2012, 2011, 2010 (Dark Noon Rosé), 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997 and earlier vintages produced by my father starting in 1982.
Any Rosé produced before 2021 is now fully mature. They will have lost much of their youthful fruit and move towards strawberries and cream like flavours but should still be very enjoyable!
2024 High Noon Rosé
This vintage has produced a lovely Rosé. Soft pink/orange in colour it has an inviting aroma of watermelon and freshly cut peaches. The palate is deliciously full and soft, with a mouth-filling texture. Perfect with spring lunch or dinner with family and friends. Produced from 100% Grenache from the Winery Block (our oldest vines).
2023 High Noon Rosé
Produced from 91% Grenache and 9% Mataro, all estate grown and hand picked. This year's label features a perfect looking peach, drawn with pastels by Rae. The wine is a lovely salmon pink colour, with a bronze hue. It tastes fresh and delicious, with a little more body this vintage and really good depth of flavour, finishing dry and long. Perfect with an al fresco lunch over the warmer months and flavoursome enough to accompany a roast chicken or more substantial evening meal.
2022 High Noon Rosé
Produced from 85% Grenache, 11% Mataro and 4% Graciano from our McLaren Vale vineyard. With an eye-catching salmon pink colour (a little deeper than usual) and a lovely new label featuring sushi and chopsticks, this looks great on the table. There's fresh fruit in abundance and a beautiful soft texture, along with an impressive depth of flavour. Dry and full bodied, this is a red wine drinker's rosé.
2021 High Noon Rosé
This Rosé displays a lovely salmon pink colour which looks very inviting. Produced entirely from Grenache from the Winery Block it is full bodied, round and soft. A very successful wine this year. Delicious for drinking over the warmer months and suited to a wide variety of food. Rae’s label ‘Autumn in the Grenache Vines’ features a photo of the old vines growing around the cellars which produced the Rosé.
The trend for rosé in today’s market is to be very pale in colour, almost blush, and light in weight with bright acidity. Our rosé is the polar opposite of that! We focus on flavour and texture. Dry, soft and full bodied, ours is a red wine drinkers rosé that matches well with equally flavoursome food. It’s generous and delicious.
It is bottled early to retain freshness and we encourage you to serve it cool but not tongue-numbingly cold (which dulls the flavour) 10 – 13°C is ideal. This can take a little practice to get right. Your house fridge, at around 4 degrees, is too cold but if the house is warm this might be a good thing, giving a buffer for the wine to absorb some heat on pouring. Your cellar is likely too warm unless you have an underground or controlled climate room, in which case it may be close to right. We use a small ‘wine cabinet’ set at 13 degrees to keep all of our wines for current drinking. This works very well for the Rosé and is a little too cold for the reds but we find it is quick and easy to bring them up to temperature.
We produce our rosé with the minimum processing possible and so it may develop some harmless natural tartrate crystals (‘wine diamonds’) in the bottle with prolonged refrigeration.
We generally recommend consuming the High Noon Rosé whilst young, within a year or two of the vintage, when it is full of fresh fruit aromas and flavours.
Varietal Composition
100% Grenache (or sometimes including a little Graciano or Mataro)
Food Matching Suggestions
A wine which works well with a wide variety of foods. Lovely with chargrilled tuna or Paella; or the brined roast chicken or prawns in Pernod recipes which can be found in the Journal-Ramblings section of this website. Think along the lines of BBQ, Tapas plates or lunchtime in Provence rather than very delicate dishes like steamed fish or garden salads which would generally be better paired with a lighter wine such as a Riesling.
It’s very versatile though, so it’s hard to go wrong in matching food with the rosé.
The Vineyard
Grapes for the rosé come from old Grenache bush vines growing on our McLaren Vale estate blocks which were planted in 1934 and 1943. Average yields from these vines are 1.5 to 2 tons per acre (or less when winter rainfall is low). They are growing in sandy loam over clay and due to their age have a deep root system which helps to produce the intensely flavoured grapes for this soft, full bodied rosé.
Winemaking
The grapes are picked in the cool of the morning and crushed into an open vat. Following an overnight soak in contact with the skins the rosé juice is pressed off, followed by a cool fermentation and maturation for 6 months in our special large old oak cask (foudre) reserved for this wine.
AVERAGE PRODUCTION
600 x 6 packs (domestic sales only)
Noon Winery supports the responsible service of alcohol. It is against the law to sell or supply alcohol to, or obtain alcohol on behalf of, a person under the age of 18 years.
SA Liquor Licensing Act 1997, Section 113. Liquor Must Not Be Supplied To Persons Under 18.