VINTAGE: 2024
VARIETIES: 70% Shiraz / 30% Mataro
REGION: Springfarm / Clare
VINEYARD: Adelina Blocks 4, 7 & 3
GROWERS: Jennie Gardner & Col McBryde
ELEVATION: 460m
VINE AGE: 1915, 2013, 2012. (40%, 30%, 30%)
SOIL PROFILE: (Shiraz) red sand, mild clay, slate and lime on clay base. (Mataro) grey sandy loam
ASPECT: NA
FARMING: ACO certified organic

WINEMAKING:
Hand-picked, fruit is destemmed and mildly crushed, all parcels were picked and fermented separately in concrete, Block 4 - 16 days, Block 7 - 24 days and Block 3 (Mataro) - 31 days. Then off to 700 l French oak, 25% new for 16 months.

pH 3.54 | 6.20 g/l TA | NEG g/l RS | 14.0%

REVIEWS:
Saltbush, iodine and green olive characters run through plum, earth, leather and orange rind. This is a medium weight wine with integrated-but-assertive tannin, a sheeted impression to the (long) finish, character aplenty and the fruit to match. It’s a wine of momentum but then too it’s a wine of strings and muscle. Truth be told, it’s a fantastic wine, and startling value.
94 Points. Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front.

A generous perfume and similarly so to taste. Lush, ripe red cherry, raspberry, sweet spice, light milk chocolate notes, a touch of aniseed, faint game meat and some truffle notes. It's easy on the palate in its slick of texture and trill of fine, stony tannin to finish. A little minty, alpine herb in there, too. Very approachable and flavoursome.
93 points. Mike Bennie, Wine Companion.