| GRAPE VARIETY: | Petit Verdot |
| VINTAGE: | 2016 |
| REGION: | 100% One Tree Hill |
| ANALYSIS: | 14.0% Alcohol, Residual Sugar < 2g/L |
| CELLAR POTENTIAL: | This wine is approachable upon release, but will benefit with carefully cellaring of 5+ years |
| COLOUR: | Lovely clarity with a bright purple hue. |
| BOUQUET: | Lifted aromas of perfume spice, violets, raspberries and dark chocolate. |
| PALATE: | Intense and layered flavours of plums, coffee with a lovely long and silky finish. |
| VINEYARD & VITICULTURE: | Sourced from a single low yielding vineyards from Southern One Tree Hill, with an average yield of 1.5 tonne per acre. |
| WINEMAKING: | Crushed and destemmed to open top fermentors, where cooling was employed throughout the fermentation between 18-25oC. There was two pump overs and one hand plunge every day to optimise flavour, colour and tannin extraction. After 7 days of fermentation the fermented wine was then gently Basket Pressed to a settling tank for 2 days, where it was then racked to older oak barrels to undergo Malolactic fermentation. |
| STORAGE/MATURATION: | 18 months in seasoned French oak hogsheads. |
Awards for this wine:
- GOLD Medal – 2014 Small Winemakers Show
- GOLD Medal – 2014 National Cool Climate Wine Show (Highest In Class)
- 4 ½ STARS – Winestate Magazine (Highest Awarded Wine in Category) 2015
- Nominated Wine of the Year – Winestate Magazine 2015
