Blackenbrook Vineyard

After 12 months barrel ageing, this is a fragrant wine with sweet fruit characters of pineapple and peach, a pronounced butterscotch influence and a long, rounded finish.

It is built for ageing and we recommend to enjoy it between now and 2010.

• Single Vineyard: Home block
• Moutere clay soil with a layer of sandy loam
• Focus on healthy soil and strong plants
• All vines grafted on site
• Clones:  Mendoza, Gm 2/23, UCD 15

Excellent growing season with a hot and dry summer stretching right into autumn.

Hand-picked and hand-sorted on 1 April 2006 with 24.8 Brix

• Whole bunch pressed
• Cool fermentation
• Extended lees contact
• aged for 12 months in one- and two-year old oak barriques
• Full malolactic fermentation

Minimal pumping
Cross-flow filtration

Bottled on 1 August 2007 under screw capsules

• 15.0% Alcohol