Sacred Hill Brokenstone 750ml

Sacred hill’s first ‘gravels’ vineyard was in the dartmoor valley in hawke’s bay – a stunning site, free draining and warm, and we weren’t the only ones to think so. first a herd of cattle chewed their way through the vines, then a free-spirited farmer released his sheep to graze the riverside… and our vineyard. the following year, aggressive german wasps came for a visit. no surprise then we affectionately called the vineyard ‘stoneybroke’. when we began harvesting fruit from our gimblett gravels vineyard, we thought brokenstone, with its link to the gravel soils, a much more alluring name. impenetrable colour, the aroma is an explosion of dark damson plum, 10 spice, black olive, black liquorice and sandalwood notes. there is mouth filling richness on the palate with dark plum, christmas cake and savoury, meaty complexity. the tannins are very fine grained with a soft, chalky quality providing beautifully balanced length.