Description / Reviews
"Hamill tells a multigeneration story of the Thomson family, beginning with Emily Grace Hamill, who married Fredrick Thomson. Emily was instrumental in the success of the Thomson family and enabled the family to purchase Best’s. The name Hamill has been handed down through 3 generations and resides with Ben Hamill Thomson whose leadership lead to the purchasing of the Sugarloaf Vineyard.
This wine is produced from this premium vineyard, which is situated amongst the rolling hills surrounding The Black Range.
Careful consideration on parcels from the best performing blocks on the site generates a unique single-vineyard wine. Individual rows are hand harvested to incorporate whole bunch spice, and whole berry fleshy red fruits. It is fermented on skins for up to 21 days and matured in French barriques for 14 months." - Best's, Winemaker
"Full ruby red colour. Blueberry, raspberry, vegetable stock and white pepper aromas. Medium to full, lively blue fruits with bunchy vegetable stock notes that bring savoury notes while white pepper and granite minerality offers other complexing factors. Tannins need a little more time to integrate but still allow the flow to carry long" - 92 Points, Stuart Knox, The Real Review
"A most convincing young wine with both density and concentration of ripe fruit, well managed, enhanced, by plenty of toasty oak and spice. Firm in structure, generous in ripe, cherry pip tannins, it has plenty of time on its side." - 94 Points, Jeni Port, Halliday Wine Companion (2020 Vintage)
