John Marshall forged his mother’s signature to enlist in the RAAF, he flew Tiger Moths and gained notoriety for his acumen at loop de loops. He is best remembered in vintages of Adelaide Hills Montipulciano, left to the influence of wild yeasts and a course of cold soak, hand plunged until sugar dry on the sixth day of ferment. Batches are pressed off skins to oak barrel for completion of malolactic and a judicious term of age. Unfiltered to bottle, evocative of black cherries, mulberry and redolence of cassis, bursting with the savouryness of sage leaf, olives and delish vinosity.