Tasting Notes

Winery notes:
Dark crimson in colour this aromatic wine displays black pepper and chocolate notes around an intriguing floral lift. A well structured palate, rich and opulent with a fleshy fruit core.
Both Shiraz and Viognier grapes were hand harvested, destemmed and crushed together. Co-fermenting Viognier with Shiraz helps to stabilise red wine colour and attributes a perfumed aromatic lift to the wine. The fermentation was hand plunged daily, gently extracting tannin and building wine structure. The temperatures peaked at 33oC before being cooled back to 28oC for the remainder of the fermentation. The fermentation was pressed to a mix of new and seasoned oak hogsheads for maturation. Matured in barrel for 18 months, then naturally clarified, lightly fined and bottled with minimal filtration.