COLOUR: Deep purple / red.
AROMA: Intense, concentrated plum and spice. Sweet oak.
PALATE: An elegant intense Merlot, showing ripe fruit, wonderful
vibrancy and the ability to age well. Integrated oak, fine
tannins in abundance and weighty plummy fruit.
OAK MATURATION: Approximately 18 months in French
and American barriques.
TECHNICAL DATA
SOILS:
Consisting of alluvial gravel overlaid with silt sands of varying depths. The
Ngaruroro River laid these soils incorporating volcanic pumice sands down
centuries ago. The free draining and low nutrient nature of these soils are
ideal for winegrowing.
VINTAGE CONDITIONS:
Favourable conditions were experienced through the flowering and fruit set
periods. A fine warm summer meant good ripening was achieved. March
rain occurred, but our free draining soils and prudent harvesting decisions
ensured the grapes were received at the winery in ripe, clean condition.
Yields were moderate.