Tasting Notes
Aroma: All the beauty of cool climate Shiraz is here to behold. Violets on the nose, with red cherries, satsuma plums, roasted hazelnuts.
Palate: Medium bodied, with soft tannins that close the deal.
Vintage notes: The growing season for 2021 was terrific, a joy after the traumas of 2020. Soaking winter rains gave us plenty of moisture in the soil, and that flowed into healthy crops. The summer was mild and slow ripening giving lots of flavour.
Winemakers comments: Our vision is to make exciting, refined wines exclusively from the Adelaide Hills that reflect our sites and climate.
Vinification: Hand-picked, then either destemmed and fermented as whole berries, or fermented as whole bunches with stems. We like gentle handling and long ferments so the tannins are fine, and the perfume of cool climate Shiraz is not lost. Matured in mainly older French oak.
Cellaring potential: Has the concentration and structure to develop fine tertiary characters in bottle over the next 15 years.
