This wine is a marvel of complex restraint: the glossiness of the vintage is pushed back by the anise and jasmine-tinged complex marine bouquet that belies its subtlety – if you are really looking! The Hill of Wingfield is always pulled from the most hilly bit of the Wingfield Vineyard. This wine just stands apart in the way that the smoothness and the nobility of the floral and fruit elements, the stark, dark mineral elements of the nose, all integrate together. “You have to believe!” You have to believe in terroir. And believe in that slope, the drainage of the soils of that slope, the proximity of that slope to the Niagara Escarpment, the tree line where it gets shaded that little bit longer… All of these things contribute to a truly noble site, a terroir to be venerated…

A word from Mary: A White pepper Nose, laser-focused minerality. It has that anis finish that is SO Vineland Bench Dolostone!’

Drinking prime: 2024 – 2032

Best fruit window: 2024 – 2029

Cases produced: 102