2018 Adelaide Hills Shiraz

Medium bodied Shiraz- spice and bright red fruit

Vineyard: Joyce Vineyard, Gumeracha, Adelaide Hills

Planted: 1997

Soil type: Sandy loam on clay

Picking date: March 31, 2018

Picking method: Hand harvested and sorted in vineyard

Processing: 2/3 destemmed, 1/3 whole bunch (100%)

Fermentation: Destemmed component - open ferment for 2 weeks, hand plunged twice daily. Whole bunch component – carbonic for 6 weeks

Pressing: Free run and pressings combined

Settling: Settled off gross lees for 7 days

Aging vessel: French oak Barrique (10% new) for 12 months, then racked to stainless for 3 months

Filtration: None

Fining: None

Alc: 14.1%

pH: 3.81

TA: 5.4

SO2: 30F, 60T

Production: 200 dozen