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!