Grapes are grown to a unique terrain which delivers world class fruit, the vines are rooted to an exceptionally rich and fertile, alluvial stone bed, over fifty metres in depth. The gravely soils of the eight hundred hectare Gimblett Gravels area were formed by continual flooding of the Ngaruroro River over ten millenniums, eventually forming what is now a wine growers paradise. Only the best grapes are selectively hand picked from the lower yielding older vines. Fruit is gently destemmed and tank fermented to retain the vigorous expressions of Gimblett Gravels Cabernet. Treated to a daily pumpover of skins and extended maceration, followed by malolactic and maturation in new French oak barriques.