Evan and Tina Gobell’s Stonewell Road vineyard sits at 255m elevation on red loam over clay peppered with ironstone. It has a gentle westerly aspect and is pruned to grow low yielding, early ripening and intensely flavoured fruit.

For wine nerds like me: High winter rains preceded a cool spring. Late budburst, flowering and a cool autumn combined for a very late vintage. Handpicked on the 23rd of March, 80% destemmed, 20% whole bunch, wild fermented in open fermenter, pressed to French oak, matured for 15 months in barrel (40% new).