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MIN ORDER - 6 BOTTLES (straight or mixed)

** RRP $60 | Mailing list price until Nov 8 - $42.50 **

Vineyard

100% single vineyard from Gladysdale in the upper reaches of the Yarra Valley

Winemaking

The fruit is hand-picked, sorted and chilled overnight to 12 degrees to enable a 5-day cold soak to occur. The fruit is gently destemmed (70% whole berry) and 30% whole bunch is included… It’s then left to commence spontaneous fermentation with the natural vineyard yeasts. The ferment is lightly pigéaged (foot stomped) and hand plunged daily,spending about 3 weeks on skins. The finished wine is pressed straight to French puncheons and barriques (10% new), undergoing natural MLF in its own time and kept on lees until bottling. The wine is in oak for 10 months with further aging in stainless before being bottled via gravity. Unfined and unfiltered.

Tasting Notes

The moderately warm and dry year resulted in long, cool ripening that delivers a Pinot of fantastic depth and weight. Rich cherry cola and dark chocolate aromas mix with dark plum and a gentle smokey oak spice. The palate is rich with davidson plum and dark cherry fruit, combined with a creamy roundness and fresh cherry pip acidity. Complex cigar box spices are gentle and structured tannins close the long finish.   

MIN ORDER - 6 BOTTLES (straight or mixed)

** RRP $60 | Mailing list price until Nov 8 - $51 **

Sourced from John and Josie D’Aloisio’s vineyard located high up on the hill above the township of Seville. The I10V1 clone Chardonnay was planted in 1991 on its own roots (non-grafted) and is grown on the stunningly rich red volcanic soils this subregion of the Yarra Valley is famous for.

This vineyard is just getting better and better with age and does a remarkable job of producing amazing wines year in year out.    

Winemaking

The fruit is hand-picked and cooled overnight. Whole bunches are lightly crushed by foot before a long pressing when the un-sulphured juice is transferred straight to oak. The oak is a combination of old (70%) and new (30%) French barriques and puncheons. Ferments are allowed to start naturally (wild) and complete with no temperature control. The wine is not battonaged and left on lees for 10 months in oak and a further 5 months on lees in stainless steel. Some MLF may have occurred but not encouraged and SO2 is added when the wine is ready for it. The wine is lightly filtered before being bottled un-fined by hand via gravity.

Tasting Notes

This wine is a power house! The combination of a warm year and red soils has produced quite a stunning result from the les vergers site.

The wine pours out lemon yellow with green tinges. The aromas open with a whiff of struck match, peach, yellow nectarine and almond butter. The palate is where you see the density, luscious peach and white stone fruits mingle to the mid-palate with toasty oak and buttery flavours. Its long with a squeeze of fresh lemon and brine completing the package. This will age well!

MIN ORDER - 6 BOTTLES (straight or mixed)

** RRP $60 | Mailing list price until Nov 8 - $42.50 **

Sourced from the Peirce Family vineyard in Steels Creek at the base of the Kinglake range. It’s a warm site with hungry mudstone and shale soils with a granitic bedrock base and some scattered quartz. The vines are own rooted and planted in 1990 - so now 34 years old!

Winemaking

Hand-picked and sorted, cooled overnight and gently placed into 1 tonne fermenters as 100% whole bunches. The fruit is locked up for two weeks to start a natural carbonique ferment for 2 weeks with no working at all, after which time the fruit is pigéaged (foot stomped) once a week for a further 5 weeks. The must is then pressed straight to a very old puncheon with all lees - and not touched until May the following year. It’s then that the wine gets racked straight to its bottling tank and is bottled by hand via gravity. Unfined and unfiltered.

Tasting Notes

I would say this is one of the most complete Syrah’s I’ve made. The warm year has resulted in intense colour and concentration but still reflecting the fine Syrah styling.

The wine is deep purple in colour with great intensity. Aromatically, it is very lifted with dark berry fruits - almost boysenberry with hints of red liquorish. You notice the whole bunch but it’s very much integrated with just a hint of herbs and toast showing. The palate is concentrated and fine, with silky smooth tannins and quite round and rich in the mouth.

Worth trying even if you’re not a Syrah drinker!