Colour

bright medium crimson

Nose

The bouquet is highly floral and scented with perfumed red fruits raspberries and rose petals.

Palate

The vibrant and elegant palate flavours provide richness, subtlety and restraint. A balanced use of oak supports the punch of primary fruit without overwhelming and delivers a wine that is powerful in fruit flavour, layered and complex.

From the beginning this fruit offered an abundance of flavour and structure and the mission was to gently capture these elements rather than to work the fruit too hard. Most of the ferments were de-stemmed whole berries and as usual the fermentation and malo-lactic were carried out with indigenous yeasts and bacteria. Some batches finished ferment in oak whilst others spend a fortnight on skins post ferment. The wine then spent 18 months in oak before a light filtration and then bottling.