Apart from winning many accolades and awards, Nine Vines has become popular around the world. Mostly Grenache, the secret to it's allure, with about a third of Shiraz, harvested off the finest vineyards. Grapes are kept cool on the journey to the winery, where they are filled to vessels for cold settling. The individual parcels are separately crushed into rotary fermenters and cooled to 10C. After twenty four hours on skins, batches are gently pressed, clarifiedand inoculated with yeasts which have been isolated for their capacity to enhance fruit characters. Juices are cool fermented until almost dry, leaving very little resisdual sugar. Components are then stabilised, clarified and assembled into the finished wine.