Blackenbrook Vineyard

A seductively supple and luscious wine with elegant butterscotch, bran biscuit and toasted nut flavours adding complexity to citrus fruit and pineapple characters.

The wine will benefit from bottle ageing and we recommend to enjoy it between now and 2011.

• 100% Blackenbrook fruit from our Home block
• Moutere clay soil with a layer
• of sandy loam
• All vines grafted on site

Clones: Mendoza, Gm 2/23, UCD 15

Focus on healthy soil and strong plants

Cold temperatures and rain at flowering, followed by excellent summer and autumn weather

Hand-picked and hand-sorted on 13 April with 25.7 Brix

• Whole bunch pressed
• Gravity-fed from press area to main winery
• Cool fermentation
• Aged for 12 months in one- and two-year old barriques
• French and American oak
• Extended lees contact with gentle lees stirring on a regular basis
• Partial malolactic fermentation

Minimal pumping
Cross-flow filtration

Bottled on 29 July 2008 under screw capsules
15.0% Alcohol