A deep purple red colour, palate of rich dark chocolate. This fortified wine is luscious on the palate with a wonderfully rich finish. A beautifully balanced dessert wine.

Ripe Organic Shiraz was crushed, destemmed, and pumped into a open tank. The ferment is started with natural yeasts and continues at 30C until the ferment has proceeded through a few degrees of sugar.

The must is drained and basket pressed, the juice returned to an open fermenter and the ferment continues.  The desired Beaume is reached before adding certified brandy spirit (neutral alcoholic spirit) for fortification.

Once the wine has settled it is pumped to oak barriques for cellaring underground for maturation.

When mature the wine is bottled using natural cork.

Alcohol - 18 %    pH 3.8

Residual Sugar - 5+ Beame

Total SO2, less than 100 ppm

Proteins and tartrates may form a "crust" in the bottle.