Vintage 2022 was excellent for Bordeaux reds, balanced crops, and a hot and dry season for the region resulted in our second largest harvest of 450 tons across all our vineyard sites. Sourced from 14 different vineyard sites across 5 varieties the Ironclad is a classic Right Bank Bordeaux style blend. All the vineyards are dry grown, and hand harvested from steep valley sites sheltered from the cooling winds of the Pacific Ocean. Each parcel is fermented separately with wild yeasts in open top fermenters with a total time in vat of 30 days. Pressed and aged separately in 500 litre French Oak puncheons the wines undergo natural malolactic fermentation and rest on gross lees for 18 months. After rigorous tasting and blending trials, the wines are then racked to blend, aged together for a further 6 months before bottling.