Tasting Notes

Winemaker: Gerald Naef

Colour:  Dark ruby red in colour.

Aroma:  Ripe plum, blackberry dark cherry, chocolate and lightly floral with well integrated toasted oak.

Palate: The palate is mouth filling yet elegant with up front ripe berry, dark cherry, plum and a hint of spice. It is a well structured wine that begins with fresh ripe fruit followed by subtle integrated oak, soft tannins, and a long back palate.

Winemaking:  The grapes were crushed then cold soaked to extract dark berry flavours before being fermented in vat. It was pressed off skins during late ferment and aged in new and old French oak along with one new American barrel - just to add a little interest.

Cellaring: This wine has intensity of fruit and tannin along with freshness that will inable it to age very well. It is drinking well now but if you can put it away for three to five years it will develop enticing secondary characters and the tannins should become silky and simply irresistible.