AT FIRST SIP- Lavender shrub, blue plums and crunchy red cherries. There’s a certain flashy vibrancy to the fruit on the palate, accompanied by toasty oak depth. Tannins are firm and keep everything running in the same direction. Lovely now and will continue a delicious ride for another 5 years. AFTER A FEW- unequivocally Otago but perhaps not as you know it, this is the new wave and would be nirvana with five spice duck.

Plush, sweet nose, wreathed in oak. Big fruit and oak on the palate as well, more old-school with plump, finely coated tannins. A mouthful with fleshy ripeness which ultimately yields to the structure 08 DEC 2023 Drink 2024–2028