Serious, structural and potent, with youthful intensity just now starting to yield into velvety, sueded tannins. Deerstalkers is entirely Gimblett Gravels fruit, only produced in the very best years. Gravelly, with humus earth, tar, camp smoke texturing inky dark black plum, liquorice, dusky violets, ripe black cherry, thick blackberry on a potent, refined palate, this finishes with ample fresh cracked pepper and smoked beef. Open top fermented with extended post-ferment maceration before being basket pressed into French oak barrel (30% new) for 18 months, this is a well-constructed big red, intended to impress and hold a good few years in the cellar.