Port Phillip Vineyard is quite small at only nine hectares, there are however unique microclimes within the property which make a rather articulate wine. During the harvest of a finer, warmer growing season, the team may set aside fruit fom a half hectare block of older vines, for a limited edition Shiraz of added richness, elocution and depth. Serenne makes a wine of dulcetly aromatic, black plum and mulberry flavours, a measure of vegemite savouryness and the piquancy of spiced game, the tannins are conspicuously tranquil, secure yet serene.

A single acre of Pinot Noir, Morillon is the original planting at Port Phillip Estate, an endowment of charming old vines in exceptional balance. The iron and magnesium rich, weathered basalt soils, impart a savoury, earthy minerality to the wine, a luxurious influence of terroir which supports the aromatic cherry fruits and Asian spice. Enthusiasts of Port Phillip who have visited the vineyard, may detect the essence of saffron milk caps within the palate and bouquet, a unique mushroom which grows around the roots of the old conifer stand below Morillon block.

Planted in the 1980s, Cooinda Vale is constrained by a shallow rooting depth which limits vigor and limits the vines to low yields of the highest quality Pinot Noir. Grapes are completely whole bunch fermented through the action of wild indigenous yeasts, pressed to a luxuriously high proportion of new French oak barriques for a timely ten months of age. Tightly wound with black pepper, stalky tannin and blue berry redolence, its punchy strawberry jube fruits, seasoned by bay leaf, shitake and red gravel undertones. A mere hundred dozen are made.

At just three kilometres from Frederick Henry Bay, Butchers Hill can count on the sobering maritime winds to challenge the vines and restrict the harvest to small yields of the tastiest fruit. The winemaking is unhurried, wild ferments and good oak complete a curvaceous cuvée. It's Pinot for the punctilious, the sugars are intense, the textures satin smooth, the tannins toothsome and assured. Its crimson purple countenance, presages ripe raspberries, roses and fragrance of bay, a shave of ginger and sprinkling of soy, lingering over a length of crunchy cherry acids and glossy graphite tannin.

Barolo of the most elite peerage, compiled from the finest Bussia vineyards in Monforte d'Alba, an assemblage of the best parcels Nebbiolo, Lampia and Michet, selectively hand picked off vines planted to limy marl and compact sandy soils on the three great Cru of Colonnello, Cicala and Romirasco. Only ever made from the most spectacular vintage years, treated to a month of warm temperature ferment on skins, followed by several rackings into oak for an extravagant thirty months maturation and several years bottle age under the Aldo Conterno cellars.

The five most most exclusive parcels of old vine Shiraz, a secret component of the Barossa's most memorable vintages, hand picked off the De Fazio and Hillview vineyards at Belvidere and Moppa. Batches are crushed into traditional open top fermenters for a week of pumpovers, gently pressed into an extravagantly high proportion of new French oak hogsheads for two years maturation, followed by the final assemblage, unfiltered and unfined. Magenta black, powerful and intense, bramble berries and savoury cedar oak, licorice and dried fig, a mere two hundred cases are made.

A compilation of parcels, hand picked off a coterie of superior, low yielding blocks at the northwest precincts of Barossa Valley. Some of the growers have been at the centre of Barossa viticulture since early settlement, several generations later, they continue to husband some of the oldest Shiraz vines in the world. A princely harvest of ancient clones is treated to the traditional old world regimens of open ferments, pumpover and basket press, followed by fill into a luxuriously high proportion of new French and American oak hogsheads for two years maturation. A mere two hundred cases are made.