2021 Charles Melton Nine Popes GSM 750ml Fox Creek with sur lie ageing and

with sur lie ageing and monthly battonage

A cooler break mid-April allowed fruit to develop deep colours and firm tannins

estimated to be around 500-million-years old

It also offers a complex expression of the fruit and helps the exotic notes of spice to be discovered

calling for food

2021 Charles Melton Nine Popes GSM 750ml Fox Creek with sur lie ageing andLovely deep colour. Nice bright crimson edge to the colour. Opens on nose with a delightful spicy licorice all sorts amalgam of sweet perfume and spice, although 50% new oak was used, it remains in the background as a support to the exotic aromatics. Licorice and meat stock flavours lead into a plush rounded structure, with an excellent volume of finely wrought tannins to help shepherd this wine many years into the future. Varietal: Grenache, Shiraz,