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Mitcham Estate Shiraz Cabernet 2008
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Now this is a seriously innovative piece of winemaking and really intelligent blending. The same wine as under the Export Cellar Reserve label, this wine is immediately placing you in a vice like grip, chocolaty, pruny and lip smackingly smart & hearty in all areas. I know you can spend $20 -$30 bucks a bottle getting a sophisticated big brand wine blend as good as this with all the bells on the front but settle down and just wrap your lips around this beauty.
Cellar Reserve obviously applies to the fruit parcel selection & is right on the money. Jam packed with booming red & Blackberries, provide a palate which is soft yet elegantly supple and stoic. The Cabernet is as structurally important to the mix by providing some wonderful grip amongst the mix and adds a backbone to the ripe Shiraz dominant fruit.
Big juicy burst of flavour upfront but keeps going and builds with every lip smacking sip! Tannin is a backbone but well balanced with luscious sweet fruit and provides for another long satisfying finish and over delivers like a $25.00 Reserve blend should and at this price is gob smacking value.
I came across these very smart global suppliers of tremendous value South Australian wines and here is a smashing example of really, really good Shiraz from Limestone Coast, so I hope you enjoy and let all your mates get in on the action.
"When the first Australian winemakers were emulating the great wines of France 150 years ago, the best Bordeaux reds were often blends of the Cabernet family with Shiraz from the Rhone. Only Australian winemakers have kept that old recipe alive. Sniff this, and it’s easy to see why: the more juicy fruits of the Shiraz add heart and simple joie de vivre to the more austere, tannic Cabernet. This wine is dainty and clean, perfumed like a fruiterer standing beside a confectioner’s, with musk and caramel sugar adding their pretty dressing to the deep dark fruits below. The palate follows suit, with the flesh and frivolity of the Shiraz beautifully filling the austere, tannic bones of the Cabernet." - Philip White.
14% Alc/Vol
Bronze Medal - New Zealand International Wine Show 2010.
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| Don't Pay: $18.99
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WBW Rating: 94/100
Closure: Stelvin
Region: South Australia |
Winemaker: TBC
Drink now until: 2015
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