The vineyard is acknowledged as the greatest influence on wine quality and it's here that most of the work and thought are focused. The desire to be connected to the whole process of growing wines drives the decision to be a single vineyard producer. The first vines were planted in 1991 but problems with clonal identification and quality of planting material resulted in these vines being removed. The hard work of planting was repeated in 199...
Whilst the winery can impart influence through oak and yeast selection, whole cluster inclusion, ferment temperature control and the like - these factors, are obviously important, they are never allows to overshadow the product of the vineyard. We see the winemaking role as one of custodian of the vineyard bounty. We seek to express the footprint of the vineyard rather than the thumbprint of the winemaking. The wines are grown to be expressi...
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