Grand Vin de Glenelly is the signature red blend of the estate, the wine has a deep, dark, rich colour. The wine offers an elegant complex bouquet developing aromas of cassis, spicy plums with notes of toast in the background. The palate has a great intensity and concentration with fantastic freshness and fine elegant, but well structured tannins.

• Cool wet winter after 2007 harvest.
• Early spring was cool, with wind and rain.
• Early summer was a normal temperature but had intermittent rain.
• February was cool with high rainfall.
• Budding was good and even.
• Cool, wet conditions in flowering caused loose bunches in Merlot and Shiraz,
  but lesser in Cabernet Sauvignon.
• Ripening was seven days later than usual.
• Wine quality was exceptional.
• Yield 6 Tons/HA. 40 Hl/Ha.
• Harvested by hand from early February to late March.

The grapes were hand sorted and lightly crushed into stainless steel fermentation tanks. They were given a cold soak for three days before allowing the natural fermentation to start. Three pump overs a day were done on the tanks during fermentation, after which they underwent extended skin contact for 2-3 weeks. The wine was placed in French oak barrels to undergo malolactic fermentation. Matured for 18 months in French oak and racked on average every four months.

40% Shiraz, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Petit Verdot, 7% Merlot

18,300 cases - 109,800 bottles

Alcohol : 14% Vol.
Total Acidity : 5,2 g/L
pH : 3,8
Residual Sugar : 1,7 g/L