Our 864 range features 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.

Deep, bright purple-red and concentrated looking. This is very composed, intense and aromatic. Spicy black fruit - blackcurrant and blackberry, hints of creme de cassis, wet tobacco, iodine, dried blood/ferrous notes but with an underlying red fruited nuance. Dark cherry, dried raspberry and light leafy notes. The more you look, the more you see. The palate is decidedly medium bodied with the darker fruit flavours shining and adding to the sense of depth and texture while the red fruit characters add length and persistence. The flavours and complexity are framed by chamois like tannins with their light chalky-crunch and smooth long finish. Classic, fragrant, medium bodied Yarra cabernet that that is designed for a very long future.

Oakridge Vineyard, Winery Block. North facing at 95 meters above sea level. Planted in the grey alluvial loams of Coldstream in 1996 to a mixed clonal selection and cropped at 4.9 t/Ha.

All grapes hand harvested and sorted prior to destemming to fermenter. After a three day cold maceration, fermentation commenced and peaked at 30°C. Pump-overs were conducted twice per day and post ferment, the wine remained on skins for an additional four weeks prior to pressing. The wine then spent 15 months in French oak barrels maturing before blending and bottling.

A long, late and cool growing season with very low crops delivering wines with exceptional freshness, flavour and balance. Flowering occurred in late October, fruit set in December, and harvest on April 8th at 13.3° Baumé.