OUR PHILOSOPHY

ENTIRELY GROWN, VINIFIED AND BOTTLED ON THE PROPERTY

VINEYARD

• No insecticides
• Only copper, sulphur, milk and oil as foliage sprays
• Hand pruned
• Shoot thinning
• The vineyard is drip irrigated just prior to verasion, with a dry spring however, this may commence slightly earlier
• Watering is very limited to keep small berry size carrying most of the fruit through to slow vigour
• Verasion sees some definite bunch thinning to balance ripening ability

 

VINTAGE

• Hand picked
• Cold soaked 48 hours, 10 degrees Celsius then off to begin wild ferment
• Pressed, settled overnight then put to barrel in 1/3 new French oak, the rest two - three years old
• Our initial and malolactic fermentations are brought about from the yeasts endemic to the vineyards
• 17-18 months oak ageing contact withstanding rackings and a minimum of five months bottle age pre release

 

WATER

• Our vineyards drip irrigation water is sourced from our dams which are fed by winter and spring run off
• No bore, well, creek or river pumping of this precious resource
• Winery water is caught on the winery and barrel room rooves