Nose
On the nose, this wine is equal parts petrichor (the smell of dry soil after a rain) and berries.
Palate
Once on the palate, the wine unfolds. Earthy aromatics frame and support the focused and layered black brambly fruits along with hints of burnt orange, charcuterie & cinnamon. Surprisingly fresh, savory, and lingers pleasantly with a grip of fine-grained tannins and balanced acidity helping to cleanse the palate. The wine is complex, yet weightless. Cellaring this wine will be rewarded.
Harvest
Pristine syrah grapes from Block 12 were harvested in the cool morning and then are loaded whole-cluster into fermenters. After a 5 day cold soak, we begin the process of foot crushing to help break down the berries allowing for a very gentle extraction. After 8 days, the native fermentation became active. After 27 days on skins, we pressed and racked to concrete egg and neutral barrel. No adjustments of any kind.
Aging
Aged for 11 months and then bottled unfined and unfiltered. Two years bottle age before release.
