VARITIES: 85% Shiraz / 15% Malbec
VINTAGE: 2022
REGION: Springfarm / Clare
VINEYARD: Adelina Blocks 5, 6, 7 & 4
GROWERS: Jennie Gardner & Col McBryde
ELEVATION: 460m
VINE AGE: 5, 9 and some 100+ years
SOIL PROFILE: red sandy loam, with slate and lime on a clay base.
ASPECT: slight northerly aspect
FARMING: ACO certified organic

WINEMAKING:
Hand-picked, fruit is destemmed and mildly crushed, fermentation and maceration for 7 days before being pressed to French oak, 30% new. Maturation time 12 months in French oak hogheads (30% new) before bottling.

pH 3.50 | 5.9 g/l TA | NEG g/l RS | 13.0%

REVIEWS:
85/15% shiraz/malbec, with the latter from young vines on the Adelina estate vineyard. The shiraz comes from older vines and a nearby vineyard. This is savoury-as; sweet-earthiness, aniseed and green olive feature in dark plum on the crisper edge of ripeness. It swishes around with light, grippy tannins with a rosehip tea-like sweet-sourness and chew. A sprightly, medium-weight feel to the wine despite some serious concentration. Good drinking.
93 points. Mike Bennie. Wine Companion.