Thorn-Clarke William Randell Shiraz 2012 (Screwcap)
The lineage of this wine has a stream of trophies and gold medals to its name, both locally and globally. This outstanding red is silky smooth, dense and full of power. Weighty red berries, plums and every dark berry fruit you can imagine saturate the core, surrounded by playful violet and oaky notes. Exceptional structure will allow cellaring for 20+ years, promising amazing results.
Dark cherry and plum are the primary fruit characters with subtle vanilla and chocolate characters adding to the in-viting aroma.
Parcels remained in barrel for an average of 14 months prior to blending. Only the best barrels from the multiple parcels were used to make the final blend. Once blended the wine was prepared for bottling.
A delicious rhubarb like character runs the length of the palate. The wine has ample tannin but it is supple and velvety. Restrained vanilla and creamy oak char-acters fill the midpalate. The wine finishes elegantly with intensity of tannin and flavour.
Following harvest the fruit was crushed into a variety of small fermenters (4 to 6T in capacity). Fermentation was carried out at a warm temperature (25-28°). The ferments were manually pumped over to provide good control of tannin extraction. Each fermenter was treated as a separate parcel of wine and once dry was filled to American oak (40% new). Following malolactic fermentation the wines were racked and returned to the same oak.
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The William Randell range of wines were created in honour of our family ancestor - the esteemed pioneer William Richard Randell (1824 - 1911). The wines are sourced solely from grapes grown on our estate vineyards. Wines in this range are only made in exceptional vintages.