2024 New Territories
Medal One
Medal Two
The Shiraz brings an exotic floral fragrance and the juicy expansive fruit palate. Tinta Cão has a violet lifted nose, juicy blueberry fruits with aniseed spice. Touriga Naçional being naturally high in tannin brings a firm but friendly structure and a little spice to the blend. The wine is fleshy, intriguing with plenty of aniseed spice complexity neatly wrapped in a blanket of tannin, a lick of charry grip on the finish.
Reviews
Gold Medal, Yarra Valley Wine Show, 2025
Silver Medal, Royal Queensland Wine Awards, 2025
91 Points – Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, 2025
Winemaking
Whole berry fermentation was employed with all varieties to encourage the fleshy fruit-full palate. Gentle hand plunging twice daily allows for careful tannin extraction, especially since the Tinta Cão and Touriga Naçional are naturally quite tannic varieties. The individual components spend 9 months in old neutral French oak barriques in our underground barrel cellar before carefully blending for balance and then bottling.
Technical Data
Varietals: 60% Shiraz, 30% Tinta Cao, 10% Touriga Naçional
Region: Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia.
Vines: Shiraz from our Salamanca block planted in 1995. Touriga Naçional and Tinta Cão sourced from a steep and terraced block nearby, planted in 1990 and 2013. When the 1990 expansion of the vineyard was made, the land was reclaimed from the Warramate Hills bushland and dubbed the New Territories.
Cellaring: This wine has been made to be an early drinking style; fragrant, vibrant and delicious in its youth. It will continue to evolve for some years under suitable cellaring conditions, however this is not required.
Alcohol: 13.5%