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  Jim Barry Lodge Hill Shiraz 2013
 
 
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This wine has a deep black colour with a magenta hue. Aromatically it offers vibrant notes of blueberry and dark cherry. A juicy, fleshy palate is supported by ripe cherry and blackberry fruit. This is delicately built with fine, lingering tannins - wrapped up in integrated, well seasoned oak. A wine that can be enjoyed immediately, but with a view to cellaring for 7 to 10 years from vintage.


Awards and Accolades

93 Points - James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion
"Full crimson-purple; the back label proclaims that the Lodge Hill Vineyard is the highest in the Clare Valley at 440m (it isn't), and the wine has cool-grown nuances in its bloodstream; jet black fruits have rivulets of licorice, pepper and spice with banks of fine, savoury tannins."

Past Vintages

2012: 95 Points - James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion
"Vivid purple-crimson; a totally delicious wine with a spring in its step more frequently encountered in cool climate shiraz; its fruit flavours span blood plum, red cherry and mulberry, these complexed by spice and garden herbs, the tannins fine and supple. Great value."

From the Winery

The Lodge Hill Shiraz vineyard, on the Clare Valley’s eastern ranges, has soils of rich, chocolatey loam over almost vertical sheets of rock. The cracks between the rock have filled with soil, providing passage for the vine roots and free drainage - the ideal environment for low-yielding shiraz vines.

In contrast to recent vintages, the 2013 vintage was characterised by very dry conditions throughout the growing and ripening seasons. Fortunately the vines had good sub-surface moisture levels to draw upon from the plentiful winter rains and with supplementary irrigation the vines were in great condition at harvest. One positive from the absence of rainfall is that there was zero disease pressure and the fruit condition was exceptional.

Due to the lack of rainfall the temperatures through the ripening period were 1°C warmer than the average. This led to the earliest start to vintage Jim Barry Wines has experienced and with the tightened timing of veraison, Shiraz was ripening at the same time as the Riesling. By the end of February, when we would normally begin the Riesling harvest, we had crushed two thirds of our expected grape intake.



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WBW Rating: 94/100
Closure: Stelvin
Region: Clare Valley, SA
Winemaker: Jim Barry Family
Drink now until: 2030
Alc/Vol: 14.5 %
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