Making wine is like raising a child. Both mature over time, changing daily and always in a dynamic state. A love and passion is needed during this time to ensure full development. I grew up on a street named Melanto Terrace and this wine is a tribute to all those goods times spent with family.

When tasting wine, the eye preconditions our senses of taste and smell. Therefore a sound color is essential.

The bouquet of the wine plays an integral part of the tasting experience. All of our wines possess intense aromas -- primarily fruity with an integrated bouquet of complex attributes that provide fullness.

The aroma, bouquet and taste should be complex. There should be components within components that present a complete sensation -- inviting more than a first taste, revealing partially hidden taste sensations with each smell or sip.

The wine must have a good length of concentrated fruit. This provides a rich mouth-filling quality and texture that must be married harmoniously with its other qualities. These fruit flavors should also provide vitality, in that; the wine must be distinctly varietal.

Young wines should be fresh, delicious and richly flavorful while older wines should have intriguing nuances from the flavor compounds that form gradually during oak and bottle aging. This is why longevity plays an important role as added years in the bottle may further soften and marry its complex components.

Finally, balance is the most important component, since to some extent it is a description of all other quality objectives.

All the best!

Peter Burford