This is a full bodied Petit Verdot wine, with a stunning deep inky purple colour, which is restrained and shy when you first take a sip due to the firmer tannin structure, which is very typical of Petit Verdot. The wine does open up and soften when decanted, which we recommend. It is a much more fragrant wine than our Cabernet Sauvignon, and it has firmer, more gravelly tannins than our Elevation Cabernet Sauvignon. Flavours of blackberries, ripe blackcurrants, pomegranate and satsuma plums. In it's youth, it had a fragrant perfumed aromas which could be described as violets. It will be a long lived wine, and will continue aging gracefully over the next 10 years or more.

Geographe - Planted in our Whicher Ridge vineyard in 2005

We are aiming for a full bodied style, which will age well, and highlights the Petit Verdot flavours without being masked by any oak derived tannins or flavours. Our Petit Verdot due to the intensity of it's colour, flavours and tannins is treated more gently than our Cabernet Sauvignon. It is fermented in an open topped fermenter, with hand plunging only. The wine completes fermentation through to dryness on skins over a 10 day period, and is then pressed off skins through our basket press. It is then matured for up to 2 years in old large format oak barrels.

Une Rangée is the French translation for One Row, and we only have one row of Petit Verdot in our Whicher Ridge vineyard, which we planted in 2005. This is also our smallest volume, small batch wine that we have made, with only 110 cases being made in 2016.

This wine has a higher acidity level than our other reds, and a firmer, slightly drying texture, so the recommendation is to pair with dishes of similar texture. Using our wine sensory garden affinity beds as inspiration, flavours pairings are sage, thyme, marjoram, bay leaf. To pick up teh savoury elements in thsi wine, the suggestion would be black beans, broccoli, beetroot, carrots, black olives, oregano, pumpkin, skordalia, lemon sorrel or lemon zest.