2024 Hold Tight Syrah

2024 Hold Tight Syrah

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2024 Hold Tight Syrah
  • 2024 Hold Tight Syrah
  • 2024 Hold Tight Syrah
  • 2024 Hold Tight Syrah
  • 2024 Hold Tight Syrah
2024 Hold Tight Syrah

2024 Hold Tight Syrah

Style

The Slopes of the Hickinbotham vineyard in Clarendon are steeped in Australian history. Shiraz vines, planted in 1962 and dry farmed since, have graced the blends of some of Australia's most sought after wines.

The diversity and complexity of the site gives the wines great singularity; a distinctly mineral feel with thrilling fruit intensity, detailed perfume and finely woven tannins.

My cool climate winemaking background, overlaid onto the depth and concentration of these old vines. Artwork by UK artist Alex Khabbazi.

To be released April 2027.

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Winemaking notes

Block 126 was fermented with 40% whole bunches combined with 60% destemmed fruit. The ferment was locked up for seven days to infuse before gentle plunging and some mild splashing towards peak ferment to fully develop aroma, flavour and colour. After two weeks, the ferment was pressed to neutral 500 L puncheons for two years’ maturation on lees.

Block 308 was entirely de-stemmed with the focus on purity and elevating the perfumed attributes of the block, and its finely pixelated tannins. Ferment was left to infuse for seven days before gentle plunging and some brief splashing to fully express the wines’ potential. Fermentation temperature was cooler, peaking at 26°C to retain delicate aromatic detail and manage tannin extraction. Post-maceration occurred over a period of eight weeks to achieve full resolution of the tannins, before pressing to barrel for two years' maturation on lees.

The portions were racked and blended to tank for a further two weeks before bottling unfined and unfiltered. The final blend was 15% Whole bunch and 85% de-stemmed.

Carefully racked directly off of lees to bottle.
Origin

Hickinbotham Vineyard, Clarendon, McLaren Vale, South Australia.
Ingredients

Grapes
Old French oak puncheons
Indigenous yeast
Indigenous lactic acid bacteria
Minimal sulphites

BHW x Alex Khabbazi

While his creative career began in architecture, UK-based artist and designer Alex Khabbazi now explores art in two dimensions. Through a process that combines analogue and digital techniques, his work pays close attention to the shared rhythm of illustration, typography and texture. His recent projects have seen this recurring theme applied to more naturalistic subjects from slithering serpents to strange plants. The upcoming design series features original works by Alex, to be released in April 2027

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