A truly grand wine that will stop you in your tracks! I tasted this the other night and immediately thought they've got the wrong juice in the bottle - this has to be a reserve wine? The wine is bold and bright in all areas; colour, aromatics and flavour. It starts immediately from the first sip to resonant for ages and keeps you jumping back for the next. Buy loads and stock up. This is a brilliant, inexpensive and a firm quality Shiraz to enjoy night after night.
From a ☆☆☆☆☆ rated winery high up in the pristine depths of Victoria’s High Country comes this ripper of a Shiraz. Big in flavour but soft on the palate, this is full of intense blackberry and spice flavour and aroma with traces of white pepper and American oak complimenting each other nicely. Tannins are velvety soft giving remarkable texture and making this suitable for drinking young or cellaring for up to ten years. Crack open with a hearty Osso Bucco or enjoy on it's own, either way this is a drop that you'll find yourself coming back to again and again.
Awards and Accolades
☆☆☆☆☆ - James Halliday Winery Rating
About the Winery
With its sweeping views across to the snow-clad Alps, this is uncompromising cool climate viticulture. Increasing vine age (many of the plantings are well over 25 years old), and the adoption of organic (and partial biodynamic) viticulture, seem also to have played a role in providing the red wines with more depth and texture; the white wines are as good as ever; all are wild yeast fermented.
Made from grapes grown in the Murrindindi Valley of the Victorian High Country this wine was wild yeast fermented in small batches. After ferment it spent 9 months in older American hogsheads before minimal fining and filtration.
