Our orange labelled blend allows us the opportunity to showcase the varietal diversity that the Orange wine region can produce.  An ever-changing and evolving blend, each year we have the luxury of choosing our own combination of traditional Bordeaux varieties according to what the season best produces. Each variety brings its own strengths to the blend and the challenge is to marry them together harmoniously and produce the most complete wine possible.

For the first time since 2018, our orange label blend isn’t a blend! It’s a single varietal wine. Nor is it straight Cabernet Franc, as it has been in the past. It is 100% Malbec. The fruit came from the Kywarra vineyard at 860m above sea level and is the best parcel of grapes we’ve seen from this site. So much so that we felt it deserved its own bottling!

Winemaking Notes:

• Harvested 23^rd March 2024 by hand into 10kg lugs.
• Destemmed separately as whole berries into open 1T fermenters.
• A mixture of native and cultured yeasts employed for fermentation over an average of 20 days. Plunging by hand 2 times per day.
• Pressed to tank, settled for a week then racked to French oak barriques (30% new)
• Wild malolactic fermentation in barrel before addition of sulphur.
• Elevage in oak for 17 months.
• Blended then allowed to settle in stainless steel tank for 6 months.
• Bottled unfined and unfiltered