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 high 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 well away from Lenswood vineyards. By the end of the first week, relief came with 60mm-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 to April provided for a fairytale vintage. Cost of our white varieties and some Eden Valley shiraz were I before Easter, moving on to the rest of our Eden Valley and Adelaide Hills red varietiessoon after, and eventually winding down at the end of April as the rain and cooler temperatures set in. The 2015 vintage provided stunningly elegant wines from Eden Valley, that show extraordinary flavour, purity of fruit and acid balance with the potential fir excellent ageing.

Spicy and perfumed aromas of red and black currant, mulberry and cassis, with nuances of violet and dried herbs, forest moss and hints of cigar box and cedar.

Concentrated flavours of black and blue berry fruits, ripe mulberry and black currant are complemented by rich cedar and mocha, while balanced acidity and finely structured tannins provide focus and depth, for a beautiful, lingering finish.

Deep crimson in colour.