Our Heathcote Syrah comes from an east-facing plot of 20-plus-year-old vines rooted in the red Cambrian soils of the Mount Camel Range. Although this northerly subregion is capable of producing some of Heathcote’s most refined wines, this area still produces far more powerful wines than our Harcourt site, so it gets an additional year in cask. The 2022 spent its first year in a range of neutral barrels before being blended to a 2,000-litre Stockinger cask for the remainder of its maturation. It was bottled at the end of February 2025 after three years of aging in wood. Although a refined, savoury and perfumed expression of Heathcote (and only just over 13%), it remains a deep Syrah that might just live forever.

Alcohol: 13.3%. Closure: Diam 30.