This is our most widely planted cultivar and this year the grapes ripened at lower sugar levels than normal. This is good news in a traditionally warm area where high alcohols are the norm. A lot of this blend comes from our cooler vineyards. The wine has excellent colour and a marked peppery complexity.

Good colour meant that the wines could be pressed off even earlier into the ferment to give soft, dark coloured full flavoured wines.

Alcohol	13.5 vol%		Total Acid	5.7 g/l
Sugar	2.4 g/l		pH	3.6