Shiraz

Notes

This Shiraz is brightly fruited with dark cherry, baking spice and white pepper flavours.

Vineyard

Hunter Valley - grown on well-drained sandy loam soils located in the Mount View region of the Hunter Valley. The vineyard has drip irrigation installed on each vine row to ensure vine health and consistency of quality. The crop yields are relatively low, producing excellent concentration of fruit flavour.

Vintage

Hunter Valley - 2021 began with an unusually cool weather pattern as a result of a 'La Nina' influence. Luckily a break of classic warm days and cool nights in early January led to exceptional flavour development with natural acidity retention resulting in a strong suite of whites. More moderate weather for the remainder of the growing season has led to reds of elegance and lovely floral lift.

Winemaking

Picked at optimal ripeness and de-stemmed into open fermenters in the winery. The fruit was fermented with specific yeast strains to promote fruit fiavour and vineyard block expression. Once fermentation had finished, were racked off yeast and malolactic lees to mature with french oak. The wine remained in contact with oak before the individual batches were selected and the wine blended into tank. Light fining and filtration took place before the wines were bottled.