Tom Shobbrook makes wines in Flaxman Valley.  Natural wines, made by hand from organically grown fruit.

The Farm sits at 540 meters above the ocean. The soils are old and acidic consisting of sandy loam over yellow orange clay. The sandy loam profile is scattered with rose quartz while the clay layers have shadows of mica.

We’ve just gotten our hands on this one, bottled in 2020 and left to rest in bottles for a few years. This is a beautiful old bush tree vineyard planted in 1920. It’s a darker version of Grenache, helped by running the juice across the skins of Ottantotto from the same harvest.

It’s beautifully perfumed, with big rose hip tea and cranberry aromas over a little game meat, pot pourri and truffle. The palate is silty, with puckering tannins and holds onto a minerally freshness and light, briny undercurrent, all leaning on a nice medium weight body.