Awards and Accolades

94 Points - Campbell Mattinson, Australian Wine Companion
"Pours the fruit on but maintains an elegance. A silken, almost creamy serving of red/black cherries, peanuts and chocolate with a firm hand of olivey, spicy tannin. Certainly needs time but looks pretty swish in its youth."

92 Points - James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion
“Bright crimson; a fragrant bouquet of black and red cherry, blackberry and spice provides the segue for the fruit spectrum of the palate, but a fair swag of oak tends to get in the way. May well sort itself out sooner than later.”

From the Winery

The fruit was harvested cold at night, destemmed to static fermenters and allowed a cold soaking prior to ferment. Fermentation then proceeded at moderate temperatures for 8 days. During fermentation a combination of pumping over and plunging assists the extraction of tannin and flavour prior to post ferment maceration and careful pressing. The freshly fermented wine is racked and undergoes malo-lactic fermentation prior to 18 months maturation in mature French oak.

COLOUR Crimson.
AROMA Blackberry, plum and blueberry with licks of vanilla oak.
FLAVOUR Depth of blueberry and opulent ripe plums, mouth fi lling and fl avoursome, complex
and spicy with long fl eshy tannin fi nish.
CELLAR POTENTIAL Will benefi t from careful cellaring for up to 8 years.