Tasting Notes: A blend of fruit from several Hawkes Bay vineyards, but taken predominantly from the Gimblett Gravels winegrowing district, namely Omahu Gravels, Ngakirkiri and Twyford Gravels. The free-draining gravely soils and warm conditions of the Gimblett Gravels encourage low yields and devigourated vines. This wine promotes layers of berry and dark plum flavours combined with complex cedar and savoury characters. This wine is richly concentrated in style and is complemented by fine-grained tannins, ensuring the wine is approachable and capable of developing further complexity with medium-term aging. Post fermentation maceration was employed before the wine was pressed to a selection of fine-grained French, American and Hungarian oak barriques, where it underwent malolactic fermentation. Following 20 months of maturation, the wine was blended, lightly egg-white fined and filtered to bottle.