(2024) Askerne's Reserve ramps up the oak character and the flinty complexity to excellent effect. Hand-picked and whole bunch pressed, partial wild yeast fermentation is in barrel, where the wine ages for 10 months with lees stirring. The final blend had 32% new French oak. Lovely melange of nuttiness, vanilla and that smoke trail of gunflint. The palate is joyous, brimming with ripe, creamy melon, moving to more tropical fruit, that cashew richness and undertow of flinty minerality all balanced by fine acidity.