Tasting notes              

Deep red, starting to show some red brick hues.  Intense aromas of ripe berry and minty cabernet notes complexed by mixed spice of cinnamon, cloves and violets and cigar box characters. The palate shows ripe berries supported by firm mouth-coating tannins and well integrated oak, with hints of coffee and anise in the background.. This wine finishes with great length and bottle age complexity.

Winemakers notes
After crushing, the must was fermented in open fermenters before being pressed at 0.9° Be`.  All the pressings were included with the free-run wine.  The wine was innoculated for malocactic fermentation and then transferred to new French oak stackvats, where it spent approximately 12 months.  The wine was bottled during February 2003.

Technical details

Variety:                                 Cab Sauv. 81%, Petit Verdot 19%
Region:                                           Langhorne Creek, SA
Production:                                     1200 cases
Alcoholic strength:                          14.1% v/v
pH                                                   3.4
Total Acidity                                    6.8g/L

Produced without using animal products  – vegan friendly