Blackenbrook Vineyard

After fermenting and ageing for 12 month in predominantly new oak barrels, this attractively opulent wine displays great weight and a solid supporting cast of mealy, biscuity flavours and sweet oak.

The wine 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
• All vines grafted on site
• Focus on healthy soil and strong plants
• 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 31 March 2006 with 24.8 Brix

• Whole bunch pressed
• Gravity-fed from press area
• to main winery
• Fermented and matured in new and two-year old oak barriques
• 85% American and 15% French oak
• 100% malolactic fermentation
• Minimal pumping
• Cross-flow filtration

• 15.0% Alcohol

Bottled on 31 July 2007 under Diam Cork

The Diam Cork

The DIAM cork guarantees a 100% cork taint free closure of wine bottles. These corks also offer near perfect seals and no random cork oxidation or leaks.
The cork is reduced to cork flour, before being washed with carbon dioxide removing TCA. Subsequently the flour is reconstituted and held together by the same polymer that contact lenses are made from.