The soils here are mostly a layered bed of sedimentary materials including compressed sandstone, silica, siltstone and mud-clast conglomerate formed over 65 million years ago. Effectively ancient sea beds which seem to give the wines a complex minerality and structure. The fruit was exceptionally healthy fruit at a baumé of 11.3 and a TA (titratable acid) of 12.3. The fruit was hand sorted and hand destemmed and then cold soaked for 48 hours so as to start fermentation very slowly. It spent only 6 days in that state where it began ferment and was then pressed to a small stainless steel tank to finish ferment as juice. The resulting wine is extremely elegant in structure with a depth and complexity that defies it’s 11% alcohol. It’s fresh, energetic but has so much going on at a such a fine scale.

434 bottles produced.

• Varietal: Pinot Noir
  
• Region: Heathcote, VIC
• Vintage: 2023
• ABV: 11% 
• Size: 750ml