Medium depth in colour with a ripe, spicy nose giving way to supple fruit on the palate with good acidity that lifts the chocolaty fruit on the finish.

Two harvests took place in late February. The old vines provided wide range of flavours due to variation in vine vigour and crop load. The grapes were hand picked.

The wine then cool fermented at 10-12ºC with fruit from the young vines fermented with an aromatic yeast.

Then the wine aged two months in temperature controlled stainless tanks.

A classic Bordeaux blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot. Intriguing aromas of clove, sandalwood and fresh blackcurrant are followed by a velvety smooth palate brimming with ripe berry fruit and well supported by subtle tannins and gentle oak.

Colour: deep red with an intense and brilliant hue.
Aroma: sandalwood, cloves, fresh blackcurrant and dark bramble fruit.
Flavour: ripe tannins, full sweetness, clean intense blackberries and spice lingering, elegant and balanced with mouth-filling complexity on the finish. A classic blend in the style we have been making since 1989.

Ideal with rich food and red meat dishes.

Enjoy now, but the classic structure will allow the wine to mature well for at least ten years.

Luminously aromatic, 85% Sauvignon Blanc with Chardonnay. Tropical fruit with smoky melon aromas, leading to bone-dry, flinty and citrusy palate. Ashbourne Sandstone is grown on quartzitic sandstone soils which emphasise the nervous energy and minerality of Sauvignon Blanc.

The goal was to create a long-lived, lower alcohol, un-wooded wine from a blend of white grapes. The plan was to release the wine after a certain amount of secondary bottle-age character had developed. With their research pointing to Sauvignon blanc being particularly successful on sandstone soils, they aimed to have this as the lead grape, structurally and aromatically, with other partners contributing to the age-worthiness and palate depth and structure without competing with the aromatics.

The nose shows chocolate flavors which are rounded off with sandal wood aroma. The balanced acid creates a firm finish that is complemented by luscious and lingering sweetness. Although accessible now this wine will improve with up to 10 years.