Penny's Hill Skeleton Key 2014
15.0
Perfumed red berry with blueberry and dark plum, the aromatics are layered and complex with subtle savoury spice and earthiness.
100% Shiraz
With a solid fruit core, the wine shows depth and concentration. Well balanced with the finest French oak, this tightly structured wine is pure and elegant with long fine tannins that have focus and direction and a length to charm.
Individual shiraz blocks from the Penny’s Hill Vineyard site were harvested and vinified separately to best express the variations in terrior. Blocks were harvested during the small window of the 7th-11th of March and fruit parcels were fermented on skins in open fermenters for 10 days. Maturation was in the finest French oak barriques, of which 40% were new and remaining 1-3 year old oak. After 18 months, the wine was barrel selected and blended to best showcase the complexities and diversity of the Penny’s Hill Vineyard site.
McLaren Vale
15.0
A deliberately long-aged expression of the cumulative best of our McLaren Vale vineyard site, ‘Skeleton Key’ is cellared and carefully bottle aged before it is unlocked.