| GRAPE VARIETY: | MATARO |
| VINTAGE: | 2023 |
| REGION: | 100% One Tree Hill |
| ANALYSIS: | 12.5% 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: | Plum, lavender, white pepper spice. |
| PALATE: | Fine and succulent, with flavours of clove, raspberries and cherry cola. |
| 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: | Aged for 10 months in stainless steel tank. No oak. |
