Attractive deep yellow gold colour. Great intensity and sweetness. Dried apricot, nuts, honey and burnt treacle. The palate is intensely sweet yet not cloying, fresh and lively yet richly oxidative with a long clean and complex finish. This vintage is best as a sweet treat on its own after a fine meal (or upgrade an ordinary meal!). A rewarding challenge to match with desserts!

The grapes were picked at optimum ripeness and laid out on drying racks in 70% shade for 3 weeks. This allows the grapes to concentrate sugars, acids and flavours, before reharvesting in the cool mornings. Fermented with natural yeasts and matured for 22 months using mostly new 225L French oak barrels. Racked while in barrel to remove heavy sediment and lightly bentonite fined.