This wine is a blend of fruit grown in stony Hawkes Bay vineyard sites. The vines are trained on a VSP trellis and intensively managed, employing shoot thinning, leaf plucking and bunch thinning to produce high quality fruit.
WINEMAKING
The fruit for this wine was destemmed to concrete open topped fermenters, fermented with indigenous yeasts and then macerated on skins at the completion of fermentation. The young wine was then transferred to the barrel for malolactic fermentation and subsequent ageing. After 18 months in the barrel the wine is fined with egg whites and bottled.
WINEMAKER'S COMMENT
This is a very ‘varietal’ wine, displaying classic Hawkes Bay Syrah notes of plums, blackberries, pepper and exotic spice notes with subtle oak integration. It is a medium bodied and food friendly style with excellent ageing potential.
FOOD MATCH
Enjoy with red meat dishes.
IDEAL DRINKING
Enjoy for two to eight years post vintage.
