A light to mid-orange colour tells you this is no ordinary rose. It's a multi-faceted style with some barrel influences, plus some obvious age development. Toasty, cedary and spicy aromas figure among the mainly secondary flavours. An excellent food wine. 92/100

This saignee is made using (50/50) pinot noir and malbec, grown on the estate. It was grown without irrigation and was made without any enzyme, acid, tannin or yeast additions. The two varieties were fermented and aged separately prior to blending. They were aged in old, used barriques and left on lees in barrel for 12 months. I love the roads Bannockburn are travelling down.The wine is a pale rosehip colur and it's strongly acidic and earthen. It's such a cutting wine that you'd almost describe it as 'hard', meant here as a positive - though it needs to be accompanied by food. It has strong (black) peppery characters and a flavour that I can only describe as unsweetened rosewater. It has a meatiness and a dryness and is greatly refreshing. Interesting wine. 91 points.