The 2017 season was a benevolent growing season and dynamic for the production of red wine. Cool conditions throughout most of the growing season generated huge amounts of tannin and flavour in the grapes and with dry hot conditions at the end of the season harvest conditions were ideal.
The Vanessa Vale Vineyard is primarily a red clay and this produces balanced crops at low yield levels. In 2017 season produced some of the best fruit I have encompassed in the last 40 years. The fruit was vinified over a ten-day period and the finished wine was matured for 12 months in new French oak.
This wine is the epitome of great Hunter Shiraz and has enormous ageing potential.
