A traditionally wet winter, mild spring and excellent fruit set provided a great start to the 2015 vintage after four vintages with below average yields. Spring was dry and led into a very mild, dry summer with no disease, resulting in fruit with higher natural acidity, and incredible flavour and colour concentration. A dry, warm and windy start to January, however, resulted in one of the worst bushfires in the Adelaide Hills in living memory, though well away from our Adelaide Hills vineyards. By the end of the first week, relief came with a 60-75mm of rain and a record-breaking coolest January in 11 years. With the onset of veraison at the end of January, the rain was perfectly times for the old dry-grown vineyards, and the mild weather that followed from February through April provided for a fairytale vintage.

Enticing aromas of blackcurrant, mulberry, plum skin and lifted notes of cassis and violet with first-like nuances of blackcurrant leaf and cedar.

An intensely fruited palate of blackcurrant, plum and blueberry flavours are complemented by hints of violet, crushed bay leaf, grilled Mears and rich cedar notes, while layers of fine grained tannins and a complex and elegant structure lead to a long and succulent finish.

Deep crimson in colour with purple hues.