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Wine Description
The Story
Heggies could be called viticultural "struggle country". The winters are cold and wet, summers mild but very dry and the soils are thin and gravelly on well drained slopes. This provides low yields, yet consistently produces grapes of outstanding flavour intensity.
Heggies vineyard is the sort of place a man would sit on his horse in silence at sunset and marvel at the ways of nature. Through the combination of innovative viticultural pract...
Wine Information
Vinification: Fermented & matured for 11 Months in new French oak barriques (35%), one year old French oak barriques (28%), balance in older French oak barriques.
Alcohol: 13.0
Total acid: 6.2
pH: 3.26