Mount Pleasant - 2022 Philip Shiraz variety_Grecanico Black cherries and plums

Black cherries and plums

Plums and strawberry gum aromatics

Neil and Maria Empson

with gentler and more careful vinifications

We attempt to capture the salinity and marine fossil notes from the sandy

Mount Pleasant - 2022 Philip Shiraz variety_Grecanico Black cherries and plumsDestemmed into open top fermenters. Following a gentle 3 day pre fermentation cold soak the wines were inoculated with cultured yeast. Colour & tannin were extracted from the skins by a combination of plunging and pumping over for a period of up to 10 days. After pressing the wines they were transferred to a combination of new and seasoned oak barrels, 10% new to give richness & complexity, for a maturation period of 12 months. Once optimum maturation