After Five Wine Co. Single Vineyard Shiraz 2021

Shiraz made the Purple Hands way - fruit destemmed and lightly crushed (rollers open) to an open concrete fermenter, seeded via a method known as Pied de Cuve (a small percentage of the fruit was picked 5 days before main harvest and left amongst the vines allowing the natural yeast of the vineyard to commence fermentation, this was added back to the main fermentation as a starter culture), header boards allowing gentle extraction. 11 days on skin, basket pressed and transferred into 33% new French oak (500lt) with the balance into 1-4 year old French hogsheads, 20 months in oak. No fining used