Tasting Notes: Elegant, focused with complex tapestry. perfumed and pretty with roses petal, subtle spice and a hint of violet. Palate is fine with ripe mulberry, clove, cinnamon and supple tannins.

Food: Braised Beef Short Rib

Cellaring: Drinking beautifully +15years

Soil: Ordovician material approximately 460million years old. It contains basic volcanic material; sandstone, siltstone breccia and conglomerate derived from basalt and andesite

Season: A long cool season. A wet and cool srping followed by a mild and reasonably dry summer. Vines were shoot thinned and leaf plucked to reduce disease pressure and keep canopies open and dry. Pinot Noir Grapes were picked from 24th March - 5th April.