2024 Snap Bastardo Rosé
2024 Snap Bastardo Rosé
Our second release Rosé and using Bastardo, a variety that originates from Portugal. McLaren Vale’s climate is identical to southern Portugal. We loved the Umami character of Bastardo in our dry-red style “Blind Man’s Bluff” so much that using the variety as the base component for our Rosé was an easy decision. The wine is light and soft with flavours of nougat, brioche and strawberry
TASTES LIKE Strawberries and hazelnut nougat and brioche, with a glossy creaminess on the finish. Bright, bouncy and fragrant.
DRINK WITH Fresh goat cheese salad or a festive crab feed on the beach
VEGAN FRIENDLY
MARCUS ELLIS Wine Companion An orangey pink, this takes a savoury route, skirting the easy charm that so defines much of modern rosé. That’s a good thing. Wines like this, and there is thankfully a strong cohort of makers eschewing an assembly-line approach, are why the category is so strong right now. Orange oil, goji berry, yellow plum, fennel seed, a pumice/concrete mineral quality; properly dry but not aridly so, pithy, refreshing, though it’s more about the table than sun-soaked languor. 93 Points Published May 2025