Tasting Notes
The wine is vibrant crimson with violet hues. The wine is a crouching tiger with muscles coiled and senses alert about to pounce. Beautiful yet dangerous. Dark fruited, plum skins, lavender, pomegranate, ground spice and fresh juniper berries. On the palate there is incredible intensity and clarity with a true sense of purpose. Rusty, spicy, summer pudding with an energetic, clean acid line complimenting the chiselled and finely honed emery tannins.

Vineyard Notes
This fruit was hand-picked from established, dry-grown bush vine Grenache & Mourvèdre on the gravelly loam soils of our Swinney Wilson’s Pool Vineyard. This section within the vineyard has leaner topsoils with a higher percentage of lateritic gravel. Fruit-thinning and selective hand harvesting over multiple passes ensured we achieved as close to perfect fruit as possible.

Production Notes
The fruit was hand-picked, berry-sorted and gravity-fed to French oak fermenters. We incorporated 28% whole bunches followed by wild fermentation to build structure and texture while promoting the bright and spicy aromatics. The wine spent 11 days on skins and was then basket pressed directly to fine grained, large format, seasoned French oak and aged for 11 months prior to bottling. The wine was made with minimum effective Sulphites, is unfined and minimally filtered