2016 Merlot Reserve description

Reserve Collection

At harvest time our winemaker inspects the grapes and selects the most flavourful and perfectly ripened grapes.  Those grapes are set aside, reserved, for a special batch of wine we make each year. 

For the first few years this wine was only serves at out estate, for family gatherings and special events.  Over the years as out bounty has expanded we've started releasing these bottles as our Reserve Collection.  

Reserve Oak Casks

Our casks are made of well-seasoned white oak staves, and introduce a deep flavour to our wines.  Harvested from the south of France, this oak brings a classic flavour and allows the wine to ferment in ideal conditions. 

In these casks the wine rests for a full 36 months.  A deep an flavorful oak, fit for the richest of wines and reserved for the worthy grape.  

Perfection in a Glass 

The effervescence ascribed to drugs, to the period of the moon, and to the action of the sap in the vine.  Continual care and untiring industry have resulted in the production of a wine which seems to have been renowned beyond all others for a delicate yet well-developed flavour peculiarly its own, but of which the wonderful revolution effected by the invention of sparkling wine has left but few traces.

As bright as the goblet it sparklingly fills with diamonds in fusion, it foaming exhales an odour ambrosial, the nostril that thrills, foretelling the flavour delicious it veils.