Description
CELLAR INFORMATION "Extreme care is taken to monitor these vines to achieve the optimal pick date, which is in mid February. Harvested by hand and then further sorted in the cellar to ensure that only the best fruit is used for fermentation. After a 12 hour cold maceration the fermentation is allowed to begin, this
will last 7-9 days, We included 15% whole clusters into the fermentation, giving us freshness.
During fermentation only a punch down method is used to allow for gentle extraction, after which it
is manually basket pressed. It is then left undisturbed in 3rd fill french 400L barrels for 11 months.
The gentle wooding helps us maintain that poise, freshness and reflection of site." VINEYARD INFORMATION "These 45 year old bush-vines must be the most isolated vineyard we have in our cellar. Planted on a lonely hill surrounded by wheat fields and to many gates to remember, this vineyard stands very alone. Planted in 1978 on Malmesbury formation. It faces South South West and experiences the cooling summer wind of the afternoon, this is our South wester that blows in off the cold Atlantic only 16km away. It is this uniqueness that allows us to offer something of exceptional quality and
interest."
