Ataraxia Serenity 2007

The fruit used to make this wine was sourced from radical and individual vineyards sites with one goal in mind – to have the confidence to “whisper” style through the true expression of these sites rather than “shout” brashness through winemaking excesses. This wine is a seamless blend of classic red varietals and because the emphasis is more on style than cultivar make-up, these remain unnamed. Cultivars are after all merely vehicles to express terroir and not the expression of a wine itself. Consequently this wine continues to define the style introduced by the maiden 2005 vintage which has been embraced by wine aficionados all over the world.

The grapes were handpicked, sorted and crushed into open fermenters. Here they underwent cold maceration on their skins for up to ten days before completing   fermentation and being pressed off to barrel where malolactic fermentation took place. Careful maturation in tightgrain French oak barriques, 31% of which were new, for a period of 16 months followed before the wine was bottled in September 2008. A further resting period of 20 months in bottle followed before deemed ready for release in May 2010.