This is a complex and lively wine showing nectarine and grapefruit aromas rounded out by creamy notes and nutty oak. The palate is fresh with a mineral edge of white peach and grapefruit making way to a savoury mid palate and cashew nut oak finish. There is tremendous drive and structure with this wine which will reward cellaring over the next 6 to 8 years.
Technical notes
Wine Region: Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria.
Clone: P58, I10V1, I103, I10V5, 76, 95.
Soil Type: Self mulching black vertosal derived from tertiary basalt.
Winemaking: Whole bunch pressed with free run juice to barrel, light solids retained in juice. Wild fermentation then took place over 2 weeks. The yeast less were stirred monthly over the next 12 months while maturing in barrel.
Oak Use: Matured in new to 4 year old French barriques for 12 months.
