2025 Fearon Rosé

Classic Provençal style, with the perfect colour up to Rachel's high standards. 60% Grenache, 40% Mourvedre, all Ferguson Valley/Geographe Fruit. Destemmed, crushed and pressed off to mixture of stainless steel and large format seasoned French oak for wild ferment. No MLF, aged on lees for 7 months, lees stirred periodically to build texture, bottled unfined and lightly filtered.

Region: Ferguson Valley, Geographe

Alcohol: 13.0%

Tasting Notes: Classically Provençal in style, with red berries, currants, citrus blossom and Turkish delight on the nose, lifted by a whisper of crushed herbs. Bone-dry on the palate with a creamy lees texture and strawberry fruit sweetness, finishing long and thirst-slaking on zesty red grapefruit.

Pairing: Made for squid and chips on the beach, but also at home with a charcuterie spread, grilled prawns, or anything eaten outdoors in good company.

2025 Fearon Rosé

The rose iteration of our regional label series, in classic Provençal style this crisp, textural and moreish rose is made to be enjoyed in the sun with friends, preferably in proximity to water. Made with the same love and care as our single site series of wines, this wine is a blend of Mourvèdre (55%), Grenache (40%) and Tempranillo (5%), intentionally crafted to be enjoyed on any occasion, for any reason. The nose is redolent with red berries and currants, citrus blossom, Turkish delight and a hint of freshly crushed herbs. The palate is bone-dry but with a sensation of sweetness from the strawberry fruit and creamy lees-derived texture while the zesty fleshy red grapefruit acid line leads to a lingering, thirst-slaking finish begging to be paired with squid and chips on the beach.

 

Vineyard

The intention of the regional label series is to craft wine reflecting a regional style, more so than a single site expression. As such, the fruit was sourced from several premier vineyards across the Geographe wine region, with the individual parcels being harvested and vinified separately.

Winemaking

Individual parcels of fruit were harvested and vinified separately. After a short period of skin contact, the fruit was pressed off, and the cloudy juice fermented in a combination of stainless steel tanks and seasoned French oak, using only wild yeast. Following fermentation, the wines were aged for a further 7 months on lees, being lees-stirred periodically to build texture and palate weight. No malolactic fermentation utilized. The individual components were then blended with a small proportion of red wine to enhance colour, and the finished wine bottled in October 2025, unfined and lightly filtered.

Season

After the extraordinarily hot, dry and compressed harvest of 2024, 2025 was a welcome return to a more balanced and rhythmic, classic southwest WA growing season. The winter of 2024 saw slightly above average temperatures, and above average rainfall that started later but persisted well into spring. Mild and settled conditions around budburst allowed balanced and even early shoot growth progressively hastened as temperatures warmed into October. Spring into early summer saw a perfect rhythm of clear sunny days interspersed with overcast and rainy conditions. Flowering occurred during generally settled weather, resulting in even berry set and good crop levels. A massive rain event towards the end of November saw over 100mm of rain fall in the Ferguson Valley district in less than 24 hours, stimulating strong secondary growth in vines that necessitated additional canopy management. Summer was generally warm with few temperature extremes. A mild heatwave preceded the onset of harvest in second week of February, with white varieties being harvested in quick succession. March saw milder temperatures and cool nights, and with the excellent residual soil moisture allowed perfect conditions for a long gradual ripening of red varieties. The last of the reds were harvested at the start of April. All in all, 2025 will go down as one of the finest vintages in Geographe’s viticultural history, with the wines destined to age gracefully for many years.