Awards and Accolades

2015 Vintage: 95 Points - Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front
"Look what we have here. A Yarra Valley syrah grown on the Sexton and Tarraford vineyards. 40% whole bunches. Open fermented. Matured in 500 litre puncheons. From a fabulous vintage and at the hand of Steve Flamstead, one of Australia’s best winemakers. It has all the right credentials and yet it tastes even better than it sounds. It is just the ticket. Cherry plum, crushed dry leaves, the most blessed slow-crash of tannin, herbage and black pepper, all carried along on a river of silk. Eucalypt and clove characters play side roles. The sleeves of this wine are folded immaculately. It’s neat, tidy, contained. But it’s pure and beautiful; it sits in the glass with its heart wide open."

From the Winery

• Minimal intervention in the vineyard.
• 100% hand-picked.
• Indigenous yeast and a Rhone isolate.
• 40% whole bunch, the remainder whole berry.
• Fermented in 4000L open oak vats and stainless steel fermenters.
• Delestage by gravity, some light hand plunges and pigeage.
• 100% malolactic fermentation in oak.
• Bottled by gravity.
• 11 months in new and used French puncheons, 20% new, 80% older.