A blend of all our estate vineyards plus the St James's vineyard in Uraidla. The 2024 release is more about the earthiness and bramble reflective of the majority of the fruit coming from Little Creek and Basket Range, but it still sits comfortably in our usual house style - a dance of aromatics and tannin. Sadly very tiny yields from 2024 so not much....
Vineyards: Little Creek, Basket Range, Scary Gully & St James (Uraidla).
Vine age: 5 -37 years
Clones: MV6, D5V12, Pommard, 114, 115, 777, 828, 667 & Martini
Elevation: 500-620m
Aspects: East-west (Monomeith), north-south (Little Creek),North (Basket Range), South-east & South-west (Scary Gully) and North (Uraidla)
Soils: Light loamy clay over sandstone with extensive schist & quartz rubble.
Vinification: Mostly 20% whole cluster open top fermentation for three weeks, but the blend includes some shorter macerated 100%-whole-bunch fermentation barrels. Eight months in French oak barriques and puncheons, 15% new.
Alc: 13.0%
Production: 450 dozen