Easy drinking red – medium bodied, red fruits and spice

Vineyard: Deanery & Gower Vineyards

Varietal: 35% Sangiovese, 29% Merlot, 20% Mencia & 16% Gamay

Planted: 2000, 1996 & 1998

Soil type: Clay loam on shale soft rock and sandy loam on deep clay

Picking date: March 25 March & 2 April 2022

Picking method: Hand harvested and sorted in vineyard

Processing: Destemmed retaining 50% whole berries with no whole bunch

Fermentation: Natural ferment in open top steel fermenters, hand plunged twice daily

Time on skins: 2 weeks

Pressing: Free run and pressings combined

Settling: Settled off gross lees for 7 days

Aging vessel: 2000L Slavonian oak Foudre for 10 months, then stainless steel for 1 months on fine lees

Filtration: No

Fining: No

Bottled: Mid Feb 2023

Alc: 12.4

pH: 3.36

TA: 6.4

SO2: 26 F / 48 T

Production: 775 dozen