2023 Durif

Immensely powerful & dense, displays ripe blackberry, blackcurrant, dark chocolate, cedar & toasted spice aromas on the nose, followed by a concentrated palate that offers terrific depth & richness.

• Colour: Inky black colour intensity, with a black to purple rim
• Aromas: Very intense aromas of blackberry, fruit cake, leather and five-spice.
• Palate: Full bodied in style. Flavours of chocolate, plum jam, mulberry with mouth-coating tannins and a long finish.

Cooler growing and ripening season, above average rainfall during the growing season, produced wines with more elegance and grace. The latest ripening season on record, giving fruit more hang time, resulting in wines with perfect acidity and tannin balance and fruit purity. 2023 wines will need patience and cellaring will reward.

Single vineyard wine. Picked on tannin ripeness, as a results a high sugar content at harvest. The fruit is hand pick, destemmed an open top fermenter, where cooling was employed throughout the fermentation between 18-28oC. There was two pump overs and one hand plunge every day to optimise flavour, colour and tannin extraction. After 6 days of primary fermentation, the fermented wine was then gently Basket Pressed to a settling tank for 7 days, where it was then racked to new and older French oak barrels to undergo Malolactic fermentation. 18 months barrel aging, new and older French oak barrels (hogsheads).

• Alcohol: 16%
• Residual Sugar: 0g/l
• Volume: 750ml
• Closure: Screw cap