There’s nothing tricky about the way we make this wine – it’s how we’ve been making Shiraz here at Battle of Bosworth and Spring Seed Wines since we started making wine back in 2001 with the first Battle of Bosworth Shiraz. (We've been growing Shiraz since the early 1970’s, well Joch’s parents had, anyhow).

We pick the grapes according to ripeness and flavour, then bring them to the winery, crush the grapes and put them into open fermenters. Some of the grapes are fermented in older oak barrels, some in stainless steel tanks. The trick is letting the pristine McLaren Vale fruit characters shine through, and we don’t want to smother the classic regional spice and chocolate characters with too much oak. Scarlet Runner is generally bottled by the end of the year it was made in.