Tasting Notes

Elegance is the order of the day as always with the Nitida Calligraphy.  A sign of the perfect and subtle balance between wood and fruit.  Big fruity plums, forest mushrooms and capsicum are gently wrapped in a touch of chocochino.

Winemaker Comments

The quality of our grapes after the 2004 harvest deteriorated due to the rapid increase in virus status of the vineyards. In line with this we did not make a 2005 Calligraphy. We sourced the grapes for this 2006 vintage from Altydgedacht (our own new plantings replacing virus infected vines will yield grapes only in 2009). From Altydgedacht, we were given the luxury of picking from our selection of their vineyards, and after careful consideration we picked the merlot, cabernet franc and cabernet sauvignon grapes from north facing sites. We waited patiently, long after they supplied to other customers, to give the grapes time to ripen fully. It has poved a great strategy, yielding so many great barrels that we could blend 2 styles options - the Calligraphy and the Speciosa. The Calligraphy blend places emphasis on elegance with prominent merlot fruit added to cabernet franc spice.