Crushed and destemmed fruit, fermented with cultured yeast and matured 18 months in French (5–10% new) and American oak. A warm, dry, compressed season that in many ways is just made for the shiraz grape. The '19 boasts a bright spring in its step, that hopefully continues for some time. A bold, sunny wine with a core of dense choc-berry fruit flavours and scents, briar, bush mint, earth, toast and graphite. Supple and warm-hearted with a lasting generosity, you can easily miss the tannic tension at play.