2013 Heartland One.

Heartland is the place between the vines that offers the best view of the gum trees.

This is our number one wine and the apex of our achievement. We are overjoyed that we have been able to make a small number of bottles in 2013

Variety: 61 % Cabernet Sauvignon and 39% Shiraz

Region: Langhome Creek

Soil: Sandy Loam

The sheer intensity of this wine in its youth tends to obscure the multilayered collection of herbs and spices that track the unstoppable expansion of fruit on the palate. This densely purple wine of powerful dark fruit is complemented by velvety texture and a complex and lingering finish.

The best grapes from the finest vineyards in Langhome Creek are recruited to create Heartland One. The fruit was harvested at night and then crushed to small open top fermenters. After 24 hours of skin contact., fermentation was commenced with our Rhone isolate yeast. Following 8 days of cool fermentation on skins and hand-plunging three times daily. The wine was transferred to new oak hogsheads ( both French and American ) for Malolactic transformation, racking and a furter 14 monts of maturation.

Spring frosts and the nature of the old vines combined to offer us the only the smallest of harvests for Heartland One in 2013. Although quantities a very low, the gentle ripening season has yielded a wine of enormous potential.

Alc/Vol 15.5%

Suitable for Vegans