**Small production. Only 6 per customer**
"This is autumnal and sinewy and savoury and spiced, but it’s also sleek, harmonious and settled. It just feels right. It bursts onto the palate with red cherries, rhubarb, tangerine and strawberry, with inlays of dried leaves, pepper and smoked cedarwood, but it’s the soft-firm of the finish, and the way it seems to both dry and expand at once, and the way the juices keep flowing and fanning, that really mark its quality. This will be released in August 2024. It’s a top release, and it will mature beautifully." - Wine Front
"The 2023 Serré offers vibrant and lifted aromas of berries, cherries, spice, damp earth and other autumnal leafy characters. There is subtle rhubarb and beetroot aromas with a hint of reduction and various brown cooking spices. The flavours follow on from the aromas with lovely fruits of the forest to the fore, with more savoury, earthy and spicy flavours framing. The tannin and oak integration is very well executed and the palate draws long, elegant and with purity. A beautiful expression of this great vineyard.
Serré, planted in 1984 and certified organic in 2021, is likely the oldest high-density vineyard planting in Australia. This vineyard was inspired and influenced by Stuart Hooper's love of the great wines of Burgundy, and the tight spacing and low trellising replicates the iconic vineyards of of the Cote d'Or.
The fruit was handpicked on the 23rd and 24th of March, completely destemmed, and fermented on skins for 10 days, before pressing to French oak hogshead barrels of which 33% was new. The wine was left undisturbed and went through malolactic fermentation in Spring and was blended and bottled in February." - Bannockburn
Vegan-friendly
