Exceptional wines from specific and single blocks, produced in small quantities and released in only the best years. An Oakridge 864 wine is terroir-driven. Made to demonstrate the importance of time and place with every bottle, and always a tribute to tradition, these wines are ready to drink now or cellar.

Pale straw in appearance with a green hue. Alluringly complex aroma with powerful yet restrained intensity. Burnt match and gunflint sits over grapefruit, lemon, white flowers and green skinned nectarine, hints of fresh cashew and toast just hover in the background. Unfolding with every look. The palate is pure and intricately detailed, with a great depth of fruit that builds in intensity as it travels across the mid-palate. Flint and slate, lead to nectarine, pomelo and grilled citrus. Seamlessly textured and creamy yeast notes form body and flesh. The finish is persistent, long and precise with savoury phenolics and mineral refreshment. Linear, formed and complex.

Funder & Diamond vineyard, Drive Block. North facing at 240 metres above sea level. Close planted in the red volcanic soil of Wandin East in 1990 using the P58 clone.

All grapes were hand harvested and sorted prior to whole bunch pressing directly to French oak puncheons for natural fermentation. 20% of the barrels being new. Post-fermentation, the wine was matured on its fermentation lees for 10 months in barrel followed by a further 6 months in tank prior to bottling after a single filtration.

A long, cool vintage with abundant rainfall and very low cropping levels has resulted in wine with great purity and a high level of natural acidity. Flowering occurred in late October, fruit set in December and harvest on March 20th 12.2° baume.