VINTAGE - 2019
VARIETY - 100% Shiraz
REGION - Clare Valley

Vineyard

Made with fruit hand-picked from the best and oldest dry-grown Shiraz vines at our White Hut vineyard in the Clare Valley. The vines grow in a mosaic of friable red loam and clay, with gravel and quartz, and patches of slate. These soils are tough, bony and low-yielding, producing fruit with concentrated flavours, character and exceptional power and intensity.

Winemaking

The fruit was cold-soaked, hand-plunged in open fermenters, and fermented between 18ºC and 24ºC. By employing a longer, cooler extraction, we were able to better preserve fruit characters, giving a purer expression of the vineyard and fruit. Wild fermentation and extended maceration were used to build complexity and mouthfeel in the wine, before maturation in a combination of new and seasoned French oak (approximately 20% new). The final wine was barrel-selected to ensure that only the best barrels were used, and blended in accordance with our own house style.

The Wine

This wine is dense purple/black in the glass. It displays a brooding and complex perfumed nose of dense blackberry and blood plum fruit, rich dark chocolate notes and hints of crushed violets and star anise. The palate is plush and full with opulent forest fruit flavours overlaying supporting vanilla, mocha and liquorice characters. Plush but powerful, velvety tannins and fine acidity support the fruit and give the wine great power and drive, and will allow it a long life in the cellar.

“Everything in place.” 
— Halliday Wine Companion