VINTAGE: 2024
REGION: Springfarm / Clare
VINEYARD: Adelina Block 4
GROWERS: Jennie Gardner & Col McBryde
ELEVATION: 460m
VINE AGE: +100 years
SOIL PROFILE: red sand, mild clay, slate and limestone on a clay base.
ASPECT: slight northerly aspect.
FARMING: ACO certified organic

WINEMAKING:
Destemmed / 50% berries crushed, fermented in concrete, maceration 16 days. 16 months in 700l oak, 25% new.

pH 3.52 | 6.00 g/l TA | NEG g/l RS | 14.0%

REVIEWS:
Very satisfying. It marries concentration of flavour and deep forest-berry fruitiness with ironstone minerality, ferrous elements, terracotta savouriness, dried herbs, black pepper, a little salted licorice character and a touch of choc-mint, too. Bold perfume, plenty of flavour and yet a trim of dusty, crushed-rock tannin makes headway for tension and refreshment factor. Poised, fine, elegant shiraz, nee syrah.
96 Points. Mike Bennie, Wine Companion.

Black fruit, choc-hazelnut, a dusting of black pepper over grilled meat, a slight mint and maltiness to it. It’s medium to full-bodied, cool well-etched acidity, fresh blackberry, again a distinct hazelnut flavour with dusty spices, quite ferrous, also leaning into umami with a sort of porcini mushroom earthiness, finishing long and firm with silty and rusty tannin grip. A distinct style here, quite spicy and that ‘liquid mineral’ thing, for want of a better way of describing it, is so very fetching.
95 Points. Gary Walsh, Wine Front.