The first pick of the year was from Willoughby Bridge’s A Block, picked 8th of Feb. Direct pressed to Rosé with the latter part of the press fermented dry in barrel and later blended here. Followed by a later rosé pick from A-W block at Willoughby. Unusually at Chalmers, the Nebbiolo preceeded the Refosco harvets, owing to very low yields in the Nebbiolo. The macerated Nebbiolo portions in this year's wine came exclusively from the new Chalmers vineyard planting, the remnants after Pat had classified the row selection for his Pat Underwood wines.
These components were aged in various stainless and oak vessels according to their individual needs with various temperature and oxygen exposures depending on the tannin qualities of the individual wine. Pressing from all Colbinabbin reds were combined, and formed an important, delicious part of this wine. The wine was blended and retuned to barrel for a short period prior to bottling. Some sulphur added.