Stats
- Grapes: 100% Shiraz
- Vineyard: Olivers Road Vineyard and Amery Road Vineyard
- Vine Age: 50-years-old (Olivers Road) - 47-years-old (Amery Road)
- Soil Type: Iron-rich siltstone over limestone (Olivers Road) - dark grey slaty siltstone with ironstone (Amery Road)
- Viticulture: Sustainable (Oliver's Road) - Practicing organic (Amery Road)
- Fermentation: Pied de cuve (inoculated with wild yeast starter) – stainless-steel
- Skin Contact: 14 days
- Aging: 13 months in new 90hL French oak vat and old French oak puncheons
- Alcohol: 14%
- pH: 3.48
- Total Acidity: 6.3 g/L
- Total SO2: 52 ppm
- Total Production: 1,450 cases
- UPC: None
Tasting Note
Blackberry, cherry cola, iodine, cinnamon, pomegranate molasses and Chambord liqueur followed by bay, fresh fig and raspberry. Fresh, vibrant aromas and flavors that dance across the palate. It is medium bodied and flows across the tongue, tightening in the mid palate with a long and delicate finish. This wine feels like surfing a barrel wave before landing in a herby wash at the end of a long ride.
Press & Reviews
James Suckling
95
"Lots of blackberry, tar and asphalt aromas with some black pepper, too. Medium to full body with creamy tannins and lots of spices and white pepper underneath the dark fruits. Drink or hold."
- James Suckling
- James Suckling
The Wine Front
92
"It’s been a while between Field Streets on TWF. Blackberry and raspberry, seaweed and baking spices. It’s medium-bodied, spicy dark fruit, a little tar, a saline edge, smooth flow of firm cocoa tannin, fleshy but fresh, with a firm finish of excellent length. Nicely done and very at ease with itself."
- Gary Walsh
- Gary Walsh
Wine Enthusiast
91
"A ripe, juicy-fruited bottling full of dark berry fruit, earthy spice, black-olive savoriness, violet and a mealy, toasted nuance. There's plenty of plump fruit on the full-figured palate. It's fresh and balanced with powerful tannins. A food-friendly wine if paired with rich, protein-filled fare."
- Christina Pickard
- Christina Pickard