2022 Hickinbotham Brooks Road Shiraz 750ml

Named for the street on which the vineyard is located, Brooks Road Shiraz exhibits the compelling single site character of the vineyard. It marries red, blue and black fruit aromas with perfumed and savoury elements and captures the full flavour of Shiraz with deeply ripe plum and blackberry fruits. The powerful and defined tannins are balanced with even-paced acid structure which accentuates length of flavour and delivers a sense of sustained purity on the palate. AROMA Shows lifted perfume and fragrance with forward, pure fruit. PALATE The palate is full-bodied and the tannins are fine and long. VINIFICATION Hand-picked, 20% whole bunch, 30% destemmed and berry sorted, 50% crushed to open top fermenters. Cold soaked. A gentle maceration principle of wetting the cap and only draining and returning when reductive. Approximately 3 weeks on skins. No pressings used and drained directly to barrel. Kept on lees in 30% new French oak puncheons, with remaining volume in 1 to 2 year puncheon for 10 months. Racked and blended. Further matured in older 25 hL foudré and a concrete 18 hL egg for 8 months. VINTAGE NOTES The growing season was affected by a very hot spring, leading to the lowest yields on our record. When the grapes started their ripening process in January, the weather miraculously cooled to a very mild ripening season. This resulted in wonderful concentration of flavour, retention of natural acidity and brightness of fruit, delivering wines with beautiful finesse and balanced tannins.