2020 Spice Garden Magnum
This is the first vintage of Spice Garden – a wine that encapsulates the beauty and detail of the special Shiraz block next to the Old Quarter. On Pedro Parra’s 2nd visit we mapped this block, finding limestone, schist and clay areas, and immediately understood its potential. This is a refined, elegant Shiraz with spice and mineral complexity, nervous tension and cool fruit character.
Estate grown and made
Certified organic and biodynamic fruit
100% Shiraz
44 cases and 30 magnums produced
13.2% alcohol
Tasting Notes
This is an angular, intense and uncompromising wine. When blending from the three polygons that make up the Spice Garden we found amazing mineral complexity in Polygon 10 (limestone) and Polygon 11 (schist) and for us, a combination of these two components signified what we saw as the beauty of this block. It's tight and coiled now, but with air it soars out of the glass revealing cool fruit character, an impression of dense minerality, structured tannin, nervy tension and great length.
Vineyard Notes
A fascinating exercise in understanding the different geologies of the block. The final blend was made up of 90% Polygon 10 (vines planted on limestone) and 10% Polygon 11 (next door and planted on schist). We excluded Polygon 14 (clay because of its over-powering nature that obscured the detail of P10 and P11. NASAA certified organic and biodynamic.
