Dark fruits and a little bit brooding in a mysterious way.

Cool climate Shiraz; deliciously medium bodied.

Think charcuterie, graphite and a generous lick of aniseed spice.

Blue and black plum fruits bring a fruit concentration to the palate along with some liquorice spice layering in structure and complexity.

Some cured meat and a whisper of smoky-char interest driving the back palate.

Medium weighted and driven by fruit purity, oak just a faint background seasoning alongside a stalk grip interest.

Winemaking:

Hand harvested, the bunches pass across a sorting table before processing either as whole bunches or whole berries.

50% of the block is fermented and matured in a 3500L upright oak cask containing 20% whole bunches and topped up for maturation with 100% whole bunch component.

The remainder of fermentation in the Yarra Yering half-tonne open-fermenters, gently hand plunged twice daily.

Air bag pressed to release the last fermenting juice from the many whole berries that remain.

The wine then aged for 12 months; 50% in the 3500L three year old cask and 50% to French oak puncheons (500L); 10% new oak

Varietals:

Shiraz

Region:

Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia.

Vines:

A single block of Shiraz planted in 1973; 8 acres at the western end of the vineyard.

Cellaring:

One of the Yarra Yering wines to give itself up sooner rather than later it will often look wonderful at 5-10 years of age.

This vineyard has a proven pedigree and it will continue to evolve for many more years under suitable cellaring conditions should you want to leave it for 10+ years.

When enjoying young, decanting can be advantageous.

Alcohol:

13.5%