2025 Peninsula Shiraz
Twenty days on skins and nine months in French barriques builds real depth without tipping into weight, which is what cool climate shiraz does best. Ripe blackberry and mulberry with cocoa and star anise, silky and layered over fine grained tannins.
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Tasting Notes
NOSE
Ripe blackberry and mulberry with cocoa, star anise and subtle oak spice.
PALATE
Silky and layered, balancing generous fruit with savoury complexity and fine-grained tannins.
Peninsula
VINTAGE
The 2025 season stands among Victoria's best this century. Calm dry weather during flowering delivered ample fruit set, a rare treat compared to that of recent years. Summer then brought ideal conditions: moderate rain, no extreme heat, and steady ripening that preserved acidity, built structure, and intensified flavour. A truly exceptional vintage for whites and reds alike.
WINEMAKING
The fruit was picked by hand then destemmed and transferred straight to small open-top fermenters. Each fermenter was then allowed to slowly rise to ambient temperature, encouraging fermentation to start naturally with indigenous yeasts. Temperatures were permitted to climb to 30°C during ferment with the wine remaining on skins for around 20 days. After this time the ferments were pressed off the skins and the resultant wine was transferred to a combination of one, two and three year old French oak barriques for nine months maturation. Malolactic fermentation proceeded on its own and was finished by late winter. The barrels were then assembled in tank and lightly filtered before bottling.
Best paired with
- Duck ragù pappardelle
- Slow cooked lamb shoulder
- Miso glazed eggplant