Tasting Note
Aroma?The nose is a complex mixture of ripe blackberry and plum ?fruit with a dash of creamy vanillin oak.
ClosureScrewcap
Grape
Grape Variety
Maturation12 months in American oak.
Oaked
Palate?The palate is medium to full bodied which starts with some sweet plummy ?fruit, the fl?avour then builds in the palate to provide an explosion of raspberry fl?avours. H?ere is some lovely mouth coating tannins which combine with dark chocolate oak and ?fruit to provide a great depth and length of fl?avour.
VarietalV_SHIRAZSYRAH
VinificationTh?e grapes are crushed and de-stemmed into fermenters. Yeast is added immediately once in fermenter and the ferments are pumped over twice daily to maximise colour, tannin and ?flavour extraction. Cooling is used to ensure ferments remain in the 22-25 degrees Celcius range which will allow the fruit to display maximum fruit expression. Pressing then occurs approximately seven days a?er crushing and the wine is then put into predominantly American oak to mature.
RegionBarossa Valley - SA
Region CodeDSABAROSSA
Region NotesBarossa Valley
StateSA
Subregion
WinemakerSusie Mickan
Wine Style
James Halliday
0
96
2014/07/26
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion, July 2014
Deep crimson-purple; if you are looking for a rich, velvety black-fruited shiraz, you won't do much better than this; high quality oak integration from a lengthy sojourn in barrel, and ripe, plump tannins come together with conviction.
Drink By: 2045
Mike Bennie
0
95
2015/06/01
Aspire, Adelaide, 1 June 2015
If you're after a nouveau-style Barossa wine, step away from the bottle; this is old school, but good school gear. Full tilt in flavour and weight. It's a boldly flavoured, oak-framed wine of deep concentration, persistence, palate-drenching fruit and wild, ripe fruit-driven scents. Pulses through the mouth with heft but knife-edge balance. Impressive example of style.
Mike Bennie
0
95
2015/03/01
Wine Business Magazine, March 2015
If you're after a nouveau style Barossa wine, step away from the bottle; this is old school, but good school gear. Full tilt in flavour and weight, it's a boldly flavoured, oak framed wine of deep concentration, persistence, palate drenching fruit and wild, ripe fruit driven scents. Pulses through the mouth with heft but knife edge balance. Impressive example of the style.
Mike Bennie
0
95
2015/03/01
Wine Business Magazine, March 2015
If you're after a nouveau style Barossa wine, step away from the bottle; this is old school, but good school gear. Full tilt in flavour and weight, it's a boldly flavoured, oak framed wine of deep concentration, persistence, palate drenching fruit and wild, ripe fruit driven scents. Pulses through the mouth with heft but knife edge balance. Impressive example of the style.
