Nose
It is though well-balanced and complex, with blond tobacco and briar herb notes flashing through black cherry, saltbush, mulberry and dried gum leaves.
Palate
Oak plays a role, supportive at most, just enough to add an extra layer of positive pleasure. Tannin, ultra fine, is perfectly managed. Indeed that is the wine’s ‘thing’: balance, structure, the composure to take age with ease.”
Growing Conditions
2014 was a classic Margaret River red wine vintage with a cold and wet start to spring conditions, leading into a dry and eventually hot early summer. The conditions in summer were warm and dry with February / March having limited very hot days ensuring that the grapes were perfectly ripe and concentrated in flavour due to the longer season. A great year for reds and whites, giving opportunity for solid flavour retention and tannin concentration.
Harvest
Handpicked.
Winemaking
The wine was curated by Clive Otto and Kate Morgan and fermented in a closed vat and continuously “pumped over” to extract colour and tannins softly, with ferment being completed after 12 days. The wine was pressed and placed in French oak barrels and stored for 20 months.
