Description

This wine is blended from vineyards selected across McLaren Vale. We aim to produce a great example of what the region stands for; great drinking, unique wines made from Shiraz. 2013 was set up to be a perfect vintage, until unseasonably hot weather came to the region, and vintage then came on thick and fast. Fortunately small crops and decent canopies meant our vineyards were still able to provide us with delicious lively and concentrated fruit. These grapes are brought into our Vintage House, the oldest part of our winery, and crushed into 70 year old concrete vats where the fermentation is initiated by the indigenous “wild” yeasts found on the grape skins. Careful extraction and short post fermentation maceration is followed by pressing. The resultant wine is transferred to American oak barrels where the malolactic fermentation is completed before racking and maturation for 9 months in barrels. A careful assemblage and barrel selection is followed by minimal fi ltration and bottling on our BRC accredited line. This wine is 100 % McLaren Vale Perfect with Roast Beef

Tasting Note

Deep inky purple. Morello cherries, bright raspberry and vanillin aromas come to the fore on the nose. The spice from deft oak use underlying the palate.