PRE-VINTAGE
RAINFALL: Winter (average) | Spring (above average).
TEMPERATURE: Warm Spring to early Summer | No extreme heat.
UPSHOT: Consistent flowering and fruit set | Healthy canopy.
VINTAGE
RAINFALL: Summer (below average) | Autumn (light).
TEMPERATURE: Days (cool - below average).
UPSHOT: Mild, even consistent ripening conditions | Gradual & dense flavour accumulation | High natural acid.
SEPPELTSFIELD VINEYARD
B-BLOCK: Deep red clay loam | Eastern bank of Greenock Creek | Low topographical position | Shaded morning | North-south oriented rows.
UPSHOT: Ripe yet elegant fruit | Soft tannins | Lifted aromatics.
HARVEST: 03 - 17 MARCH
VARIETAL COMPOSITION: SHIRAZ (97%), VIOGNIER (3%)
FERMENTATION: De-stemmed (100%) | Combined with wet Viognier skins (3%) | 1/3 fermented off skins in French oak | Basket-pressed.
TECH ANALYSIS
Alc: 14.8% | pH: 3.55 | Acid: 6.0g/L | RS <1.0g/L
CELLARING: Drink now to 2034+
PROFILE: Blueberry | White florals | White pepper | Sage.
TEXTURE: Soft & subtle | Lovely fruit drive | Soft tannin | Seamlessly integrated oak.
2021 VINTAGE
GOLD MEDAL - MARANANGA WINE SHOW, 2023
95 POINTS - HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION
“Western ranges shiraz co-fermented with a dab of viognier, which often gives an insane colour in the glass. Case and point here with its glass-staining purple-crimson hue. Super-pure macerated plum and black fruits with underlying hints of dark spice, earth, purple flowers, dark chocolate bullets and graphite. Sports a very stony, savoury disposition with tightly packed tannin grunt and a super-long finish featuring concentrated plum, blackberry, spice and earth.” - DAVE BROOKS
