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:
As good a union of these regular bedfellows as you could hope to see. Dark berries, cocoa, quince paste, a dried floral arrangement in a coal scuttle. A lithe linear frame, depth without density, a wine with beautiful even flow and glide. Crushed chalk tannins, sinewy and deft.
96 points. Nick Ryan, The Weekend Australian.

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.