Tasting Notes
The colour is a medium red, vibrant and youthful. It showcases a nose of raspberries and red fruit with peppery undertones. On the palate, the wine is mouth-filling, soft with flavours of red berries, jam, pepper and spice with an underlying acidity providing freshness and length. Delicious as a young wine, it will nevertheless offer excellent cellaring potential.
VINEYARD
The grapes for this wine were sourced from a selection of Hawkes Bay vineyards,
growing in both river gravels and limestone. The soils are free drained with very little
water retention, ideal for growing high-quality grapes. Intensive viticultural practises
including shoot and bunch thinning allowed us to harvest perfectly ripened grapes
from 12 to 25-year-old vines.
WINEMAKING
The individual parcels were destemmed on arrival at the winery and transferred to
small open-topped concrete fermenters for fermentation. Once active the ferments
were managed by hand with hand plunging employed to gently extract colour and
tannin. After a period of post-fermentation maceration the grapes were gently
pressed and the wine transferred to French oak barrels for 14 months ageing. Both
small 228-litre barriques and 500-litre puncheons were utilised, 15% of which were
new.
WINEMAKER'S COMMENT
The colour is a medium red, vibrant and youthful. It showcases a nose of raspberries
and red fruit with peppery undertones. On the palate, the wine is mouth-filling, soft
with flavours of red berries, jam, pepper and spice with an underlying acidity
providing freshness and length. Delicious as a young wine, it will nevertheless offer
excellent cellaring potential.
FOOD MATCH
Enjoy with smoked and BBQ dishes, either vegetarian or red meats. Also an ideal
match for middle eastern dishes.
IDEAL DRINKING
2019 - 2025
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Varieties: Syrah
Oak use: 14 months in French oak barrels.
Alcohol: 13.0%
pH: 3.53
Total Acidity: 5.9g/L
Residual Sugar: 0.0gL
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