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 flavoured colour concentration. It was a dry, warm and windy start to January, with some welcome rain at the end of the month coinciding with the onset of veraison; perfectly timed for the old dry-grow vineyards. Mild weather followed from February through to April providing a fairytale vintage, eventually winding down at the end of April as the rani and cooler temperatures set in. The 2015 vintage has provided stunning signature regional varieties that show extraordinary flavour, purity of fruit and acid balance with the potential for exceptional ageing.

Complex and layered aromas of blackcurrant, cassis, wild forest berries and anise are interwoven with notes of tomato and tobacco leaf.

Focused and intense, the palate shows bright red fruit flavours of red currant and cranberry that roll into more herbaceous tones of bay leaf and black olive. An elegant, supple and balanced wine with long, fine grained tannins.

Ruby crimson in colour.

Matured in 20% new and 80% seasoned French hogsheads for 18 months prior to blending and bottling.