OLD ROAD WINE CO. LIMITED RELEASE PEPPER WIND SYRAH 2020

An intense wine with layered ripe berries, natural spice and exceptional structure. It is characterized by an excellent balance between bright, juicy fruit and integrated, spicy oak, with a coated acidity and earthy minerality.

The source vineyard for this wine is located on a cool site exposed to regular cool afternoon breezes giving the wine freshness and purity. this vineyard is trellised, using a vertical shoot positioning. It is pruned with short spurs and in summer all the unnecessary shoots are removed to get better light penetration and quality. At veraison all the uneven bunches are thinned to ensure that grapes are harvested at optimal ripeness and quality.

Grapes received extended skin contact for optimal colour and flavour extraction before being racked to the barrels for fermentation. After primary fermentation the wine underwent malolactic fermentation in the barrel before 12 month's maturation in the same second and third fill French oak barrels.