The warm sunny days and crisp, cool nights at Sandalford make for ideal ripening conditions. The growing seasons achieve harvests of disease free fruit, flavour and acidity levels always at optimal levels. After crushing and destemming, fruit is vinified in small ten tonnes static fermenters. A traditional regimen of pumpovers are employed to optimise colour, flavour and tannin extraction. Upon completion, batches are rested for a fortnight on sedimentery soilds, the musts are returned to the free runs and inoculated for malolactic with select bacteria. Components are racked into a selection of new and one year old French oak barrels for a year's maturation and the final assemblage.