Tasting Note

Colour: Clear super bright crimson
Aroma: Very lifted and complex with lovely red fruits (raspberry, wild strawberry and satsuma plum), black pepper, cardamon, clove, nutmeg and a hint of star anise and cola
Palate: Delicate and fresh, raspberry, rhubarb, cherry, cinnamon bark, fine tannins with excellent structure and fantastic length

 
Wine Profile

Region: Strathbogie Ranges
Vineyard: Whitegate
Vintage: 2019
Production: 230 Cases
Harvested: 28/2/2019, 8/3/2019, 10/3/2019
pH: 3.6
T/A: 6.3
Alcohol: 13.1%
Vinification: 4 day whole bunch wild fermentation in the vineyard with punch-downs daily, then destemed into tank for the completion of fermentation with punch-downs twice daily to extract tannin and colour with the temperature kept cool to retain the delicate aromas of cool climate Shiraz. The wine was pressed to barrel with MLF completed in barrel.
Maturation: 12 months in second, third and fourth use French and Hungarian oak hogsheads and puncheons to avoid overpowering the delicate Shiraz characters yet provide some structure to the wine.
 
Review
From Whitegate Vineyard and the Double Gate Block within. Strathbogie Ranges. A very unique producer, and good.

This has heart and soul, meatiness, supple texture, density yet lift, stacks of perfume, fine, silky tannins and a persistence of a lip-smacking nature. Dark cherry, wild raspberry and wild herbs, some liquorice/aniseed characters, a touch of dried seaweed and then clove/cinnamon brown spices. Sticks to the gums nicely, a chew through the finish a coup for refreshing after each sip. Very delicious drinking.
Mike Bennie - http://www.winefront.com.au