"This is fabulously expressed on the nose displaying blackberry, blueberry compote, vanilla and dark chocolate aromas with hints of spice and floral. The palate delivers excellent fruit concentration and fleshy mouthfeel, wonderfully complemented by superb mid palate weight and silky tannins. The wine is opulent and irresistible. At its best: now to 2020" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Aug 2017

Aromas of boysenberry, wild berry, dark plum and five spice, with notes of cocoa and vanilla are found in this food friendly wine. The palate is velvety soft, has ripe fleshy fruit flavours of dark plum and blueberry, hints of baked fruit tart, five spice, pepper and sweet vanillan oak with a long spicy and liquorice finish. The finish is firm with fine ripe tannins.

Several clones of Syrah are grown in our Triangle vineyard. Soils are stony river gravels with a silt loam cover. The loam top layer varies in depth from 50cm deep to being completely absent. This causes some variation in ripening, with the silty areas producing slightly higher degrees of pepper notes and the stones providing the riper floral and fruit spectrum. Fruit thinning is essential and the canopy is fastidiously managed to allow good sunlight and aeration. The fruit was destemmed and partially crushed to tank. Fermentation was preceded by a period of cold soaking. Fermentation temperatures reached 30°C and daily cap management varied from two to four pump-overs a day. The wine is pressed on taste and transferred to barrel for Malo-lactic conversion. Barrel maturation is in French oak barriques for 12 months of which 20% new. This wine received a light fining and filtration before bottling. This wine will benefit from cellaring, drink from now till 2025.