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Zonte's Footstep Lake Doctor Shiraz Viognier 2008
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"Voluptuous mouth-filling blackberry/plum flavours from Langhorne Creek." - The Telegraph , John Fordham.
Colour - Deep purple, with a royal purple hue.
Nose - Pepper, spice and a hint of apricots. Plum pudding and blackberry pie. Pure rose petals and just a waft of violets.
Palate - Entry: Rich, soft and fragrant red fruits. Some tangy cedar and tobacco characters. Middle Palate: Juicy, round, blackberry sweetness, tempered with some taught but typical Shiraz tannin. After Palate: A peacock’s tail of juicy fruit flavour that fans out in the mouth with rolling, soft, fine grained fruit tannin. Finish: Malt, cedar and intense blackberry. Minutes later, the flavour still lingers.
The Zonte’s Footstep Lake Doctor Vineyard is on the shores of Lake Alexandrina where, each summer afternoon the house-cooling breeze of our ‘Lake Doctor’ arrives and revives vines and vignerons alike. We have released this blend from the Lake Doctor Vineyard each vintage since 2003.
Zonte’s Footstep is named after the 19th Century Zante currant vineyard as new plantings follow the original footstep. The currant business dried up, but Zonte’s Footstep became our blueprint…
In 2003 a group of mates pooled old white ‘utes’ and new-ish tractors to grow the best grapes from the best vineyards. All we want to do is taste our fruit in our wine, so we charged our reigning winemaker, Mr. Ben Riggs, with one goal; to make wine true to vineyard so long as it is a bloody good drink!
The Lake Doctor vineyard is on a 40 million year old alluvial plain, nestled between two rivers adjacent to Lake Alexandrina, upstream from the River Murray’s sea mouth. It is an oasis in a cool desert with vines planted on their own roots, in maritime red sands that sit over pre-Cambrian Limestone and are ideal for growing grapes.
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WBW Rating: 91/100
Closure: Stelvin
Region: Langhorne Creek SA |
Winemaker: Ben Riggs
Drink now until: 2015
Alc/Vol: 14.5 %
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