Tasting Notes: A sleeping giant of a wine. With time, savory notes of soy, vegemite emerge. The palate is firm and structured, with punchy flavors of blackberries, plum sauce and lingering pencil lead. This is the most tightly coiled and backward wine of the vintage. If drinking early, it will need lots of air before enjoying, but it will be best suited for a long nap in the recesses of your cellar or wine fridge.

WINE SPECS

Vintage: 2023

Varietal: 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Tannat, 21% Cabernet Franc, 18% Petit Verdot, 10% Merlot 

Appellation: Paso Robles

Acid:  6.6 g/l

pH: 3.53

Bottling Date: 07/02/25 

Alcohol %: 14.3

Cooperage & Elevage: Aged for 22 months 68% new and 32% used 225L French oak barrels. 

Fermentation: Grapes were 100% destemmed with a 5-day cold soak and twice daily pump-overs.  12-day maceration with a mix of delestages and pump-overs for cap management. 

Case Production: 663

Vineyard Notes: 100% Estate - 73% Willow Creek, 27% Adelaida