2012 Port Phillip Single Vineyard Serenne Shiraz, Mornington Peninsula

The Port Phillip Estate Serenne Shiraz is a single site wine. The fruit for this wine is 100% destemmed, and fermented without yeast inoculation in large-format oak foudre for 19 days. The maturation period was 16 months in all-used french oak, bottled without fining or filtration. .

Bright crimson-purple; red fruits, with a generous pinch of spice and pepper on the bouquet, transit without missing a beat onto the fresh, lively, medium-bodied palate. This is an exercise where the winemaker has played a strict, non-interventionist role.

95 points James Halliday Wine Companion