VARIETIES: 85% Shiraz / 15% Mataro
VINTAGE: 2019
VINEYARDS: (S) McDowell & Brown / (M) Block 3
GROWERS: Jennie Gardner & Colin McBryde 
ELEVATION: (S) 460m / (M) 460m
VINE AGES: (S) 115 years / (M) 7 years
SOIL PROFILES: (S) red sand-clay loam /  (M) grey sand through red sand on slate and limestone on a clay base
ASPECT: all blocks have a mild northerly aspect
FARMING: (S) not certified / (M) Certified Organic

WINEMAKING:

Destemmed, 80% whole berry, varieties were fermented separately with maceration time between 10 and 60 days. Pressed to stainless for malo and racked to neutral oak for 12 months.

pH 3.58 | 5.90 g/l TA | NEG RS | 14.0%

REVIEWS:
This has lots going for it. Rich perfume of dark berries, sweet earth, dried flowers, very aromatic but feels kind of savoury. The palate is the same, bloody and rich, hewn with sheets of grippy, grunty tannins, upfront whips away quickly, feels tight, the finish a cavalcade of tumbling tannin, gamey fruit, piquant, tactile spice and minerally stony qualities. Boom. That somewhat missing front palate might just be the go now, but we get something serious to finish. I like it, all up.

93+ points. Mike Bennie. Wine Companion.