Vinified from fruit picked off fully mature vines which produce a limited yield of 1½ tonnes/ acre, planted to the Parker Estate's Terra rossa over limestone Coonawarra property. Integral to the style and quality of the finished wine are unique soils and mesoclimes, so favourable to the noble cepage of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. Following a warm fermentation, a little over half the grapes are treated to a long maceration of thirty days, the balance receive a shorter ten day maceration. Parcels are matured in a combination of new and prior use 228 litre French oak barriques for twenty two months. The final wine is assembled and returned to oak before an egg white fining and bottling.