Grapes are all hand picked, most are crushed and destemmed into five tonnes open top fermenters, a quarter of the fruit is processed as whole bunches. After several days of cold maceration the musts are allowed to warm for vinification. Throughout the peak of ferment, batches are pumped over a minimum four times daily to extract colour, flavour and tannin. After a fortnight on skins, each fermenter is drained off, skins are pressed and returned to the free run. Batches are then racked to a selection of well seasoned French oak hogsheads for malolactic and seventeen months maturation.