ABOUT CHARTERIS
PJ Charteris has over two decades winemaking experience in both Australia and New Zealand. PJ’s journey has gone full circle and halfway back again, with wines that embrace both his beloved Central Otago and his adoptive Hunter Valley home. It’s emblematic as much as inevitable that the business is shared with his other love - partner Christina (Chrissi) Pattison whom he met while serving as head winemaker and Chrissi, Marketing Manager at Hunter icon Brokenwood Wines. PJ cut his teeth pruning vines in NZ as a teenager before coming to Australia in 1988 to study winemaking at Roseworthy. He first set foot in the Hunter Valley in May that year after hitchhiking solo from Adelaide. 

THE WINE
Mid crimson garnet with a ruby glow.  Fresh cut Doris plum and black Douglas cherry deliver a freshness and lift over a faint hint of black tea leaf and flint complexity. There is a deep core of primary fruit and a hint of briar leading into spicy Star anise and licorice root dusted with hints of nutmeg powder.

Plush and juicy entry with plum and dark cherry over raspberry coulis. Very energetic, hints of cherry ripe and long, so long, intense but open and supple. The tannins are very slippery and seductive but finish with resonant energy, lively but silky at the same time. The whole bunch and oak, almost invisible but structurally subtextural. Velvet and cherry through to the finish. With a seemingly endless line of flavour, 5 to 7 years in the cellar without too much trouble.