Cuvée: CroiZADe

Style: Still

Colour: Red

Grapes/Blend: Syrah and Duras

ABV: 13%

Vintage: 2019

Winemaking: 40 year old Syrah vines, 10-year-old Duras vines. Both harvested by hand: Syrah first, Duras 8 days later. Syrah begins as a whole-bunch infusion for 6 days in fibreglass, the free run juice is run-off for the Gaia Quoi pet-nat, the press juice is aged in fibreglass and saved for this cuvée. Duras is destemmed and macerated as an infusion for 1 week (no pumping over or punching down). Pressed back to fibreglass for ageing, blended with the Syrah in the Spring and bottled via gravity, unfixed and unfiltered.

Sulphur: None added

Soil: Clay and limestone on the edge of the limestone plateau of Cordais. Shallow soils