Chambers Rosewood Vineyards Rutherglen Muscat is typically tawny red in colour with aromas of rose petals, raisins and dried fruit. These characters carry through to the palate, balanced with fresh acidity. The wine is unctuous and rich yet zesty and balanced.

About the Producer

Stephen Chambers is the sixth generation of his family to make wine at the Rosewood winery, where he took over winemaking in 2001. This venerable winery, founded in 1858 by William Chambers, is one of the most fabled in Rutherglen. A charming, northeastern Victorian town, Rutherglen still speaks of the gold rush, which led to the development of its wine industry in the 1850s. Chambers Rosewood makes distinctive yet classical wines from their 50 hectares of vineyards. They are a reminder that Rutherglen produces some of the most outstanding sweet wines in the world.

Vineyard and Winery

The vineyards are located on the fringes of the Rutherglen Township, slightly to the North West, where Chambers produce drier style Muscats which express rose petal characters. The vines are hand pruned to a rod and spur system which allows each vine to be viewed on an individual basis. The trellising system is a single wire with a sprawling canopy.

Harvest of the grapes for this wine commences once the fruit reaches a ripeness of 16 baumé. At this stage the grapes will have some variation throughout the bunches, with some being plump, while others showing signs of grape shrivel. Once a parcel of grape is harvested, it is destemmed and the must placed into a closed stainless steel fermentation tank. The amount of fermentation is dependent upon the final baumé level of the parcel, and it occurs around 24 hours after harvest and a soak on skins. Once fermentation has commenced and the sugar level has fallen to between 14 and 15 baumé the grapes are pressed with the fermenting juice and fortified with neutral grape wine spirit (95.8 to 96.2%). The resultant wine is then settled in stainless steel tanks and then racked into old oak casks, which range in size between 220 to 5500 litres. The wines are kept as single vintage and vineyard parcels until blending.