Colour
Deep crimson with a black core

Aroma
Blackberry, spiced plums, lavender oil, cracked pepper and cured meat.

Palate
Saturated to the core, Ares delivers a wall of flavour across the palate with notes of blackberry, baking spices, lavender oil, scorched earth, coal dust, and high cocoa, dark chocolate emerging at every turn. Depth and nuance in a large framework, thick and bold tannins screech across the mid-palate and pull the wine through to an incredibly long finish laced with detail, created by notes of black cracked pepper, expresso shot, and coal dust.

Crushed, de-stemmed and fermented in five, seven and 10 tonne open top fermenters with regular pump overs; up to three times daily during peak fermentation to extract colour and tannin. Following 12-21 days of “on skins” maceration the free run was drained to tank with the skins then pressed. Both the free run and pressings are blended to tank and then racked to oak after 24 hours. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrel. Minimal fining and non-filtered.

Maturation
23 months maturation with 25% new French oak. The remainder in one to four year old French oak.

Cellar Potential
If cellared well, 20+ years.

Closure Type
Cork

Volume (ml)
0750ml

Varietal
Shiraz

Region
Barossa Valley/McLaren Vale

Alcohol (% vol.)
13,5%