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Katnook Estate Shiraz 2007
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Attractive raspberry fruit with subtle sweet oak maturation notes to highlight the aromas. Light licorice, spicy plum and black pepper combine with vanillin oak and chocolaty maturation flavours to add intricate levels of complexity.
An elaborate presentation of flavours richly layered with ripe fruit and subtle oak. Attractive raspberry and plum fruit with underlying sweet spices are combined with sweet vanilla and chocolaty oak maturation notes. Fine grained lingering tannins add to the long and persistent savoury fruit flavours.
2007 vintage will be remembered for the severe spring frosts that devastated unprotected vineyards across Coonawarra and reduced crops to less than 25% of usual yield. Ideal warm and dry conditions through veraison, combined with these lower yields, contributed to an earlier than usual commencement to the harvest of Shiraz.
The low yields and ideal growing season provided excellent quality grapes that have in turn produced wines with intense varietal aromas, flavours and fine subtle tannins.
James Halliday tasting notes: "The impact of 22 months in 20% new French and 80% second use American oak barrels is immediately obvious, although there is a substantial well of plum and blackberry fruit to provide a balanced counter to that oak; the tannins are fine and ripe, and the wine has a long finish. Screwcap.
13.5% alc. Rating 94 Drink 2022 $40 Date Tasted Dec 09"
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WBW Rating: 94/100
Closure: Stelvin
Region: Coonawarra SA |
Winemaker: Wayne Stehbens
Drink now until: 2018
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