Woods Paddock is a single-vineyard Shiraz from Doug Neal's Altera Terra label, drawn from a cool, elevated site in the Pyrenees hinterland around Avoca in central Victoria. The vineyard sits on quartz-influenced, well-drained soils that suppress vigour and yield, producing small, concentrated berries with marked peppery rotundone character. Farming is low-intervention and hands-on, in keeping with a tiny-volume boutique operation. The 2022 growing season in the Pyrenees was cooler and slower to ripen than average, retaining natural acidity and preserving the aromatic, spice-driven, almost pinot-like profile that critics likened to a top northern Rhone site. Yields were modest, concentrating flavour in the fruit.

Fruit was hand-picked and fermented in small open batches, with gentle handling aimed at perfume and fine, savoury tannin rather than power. Whole-bunch or partial stem inclusion is consistent with the wine's pronounced white-pepper, five-spice and floral rotundone character, though the exact proportion is unconfirmed. The wine went through malolactic fermentation and was matured in French oak, described by critics as outstanding and well integrated, leaving a translucent, mineral core wrapped in firm, dry tannin. Alcohol is around 13.5%. Production is very small. The style is deliberately restrained and structured, built for long cellaring.