19 CRIMES RED BLEND

Bright red to crimson hues and intense lifted vanilla aromatics balanced with ripe red to dark berry fruits result in a criminally good blend. Full and round on the palate with a distinct sweetness giving a rich and round mouth feel. The vanilla aromatics carry through and compliment flavours of chocolate and cedary spice, finishing with a pleasant lingering freshness. Shiraz dominant.

Nineteen crimes turned convicts into colonists. Upon conviction British rogues guilty of at least one of the 19 crimes were sentenced to live in Australia, rather than death. This punishment by "transportation" began in 1787 and many of the lawless died at sea. For the rough-hewn prisoners who made it to shore, a new world awaited. As pioneers in a frontier penal colony, they forged a new country and new lives, brick by brick. This wine celebrates the rules they broke and the culture they built.