The top cut of fruit, exclusively Clone 1654, selectively picked off the superlative Westlake property at Moppa Pass. Bunches are destemmed and gently crushed, a portion of the harvest is kept as whole berries, traditionally open fermented for a fortnight, followed by a year and a half maturation in a mix of seasoned and new, French and American oak. A chewy palate of savoury chocolate characters and licorice allsorts, its penetrating, layered richness, supported by a prodigious girth of sump oil pectins, meaty reductions and dark bramble tannins.
