This wine displays rich fruit, with tarry, dark berry flavours and hints of bittersweet chocolate and tobacco leaf with fine tannins. The palate is smooth and even, with evident yet subtle French oak that supports without dominating. The finish leaves the mouth watering with lingering dark fruit.

The wine shows lifted notes of red fruits together with an underlying savouriness. The wine is naturally fermented in old French casks using indigenous yeasts with a little stirring of the lees at the end. The wine is pale, textural and delicious - perfect for summer drinking or as an aperitif all year round.

Medium depth crimson in colour with purple hues. Rich, red currants and black olive dominate the aroma with lifted minty, menthol notes, cedar biscuit and herbaceous hints. Sweet juicy berry fruits coat the palate and mingle with brambly spice, hints of black olive and liquorice. Velvety, fine, grape and oak tannins add to the structure and flow onto the long, fruitful and spicy finish.

Lifted, lively and elegant, the nose is a myriad of red cherries, currants, boysenberries and plums. Cumin, dried sage and star anise combine with subtle savoury oak characters. The palate is lively and full of energy with balanced and bright acidity. Currants and red cherries are prominent throughout with hints of clove and mocha present on the mid palate. There is a mineral line towards the finish that meets gently structured talc-like tannins.