96 Point Rated Gold Medal Winner Heritage Reserve Release Single Vineyard Limestone Coast Shiraz
Tasting Notes
Black core with red brick hue. Beautifully fragrant nose with alluring black berry, blue berry notes with oak and Chinese five spice adding the complexity. The palate is long and luscious displaying fleshy fruit flavours highlighting the high-quality fruit used for this wine. Blackberry characters, which will enable this wine to age well, along with some blue berries, liquorice, black pepper, and dusty leather interwoven across the palate with fine tannins lingering on the finish. Will drink well now although will age well and develop more complexity over the next 8+ years potentially.
Winemaking
The fruit was selected from a single vineyard with a northeast facing slope and picked at optimum ripeness and transported to the winery and immediately crushed. Following on from this we fermented the juice on skins for 12 days to maximise colour and flavour extraction. The skins were then pressed gently and the pressings pumped back with the free-run juice. The wine was then fermented over a week then allowed to settle and was then racked off lees. The wine underwent malolactic fermentation in barrel and then was aged in the same barrels for 14 months. The wine was blended and prepared for bottling with minimal filtration.
Cellaring: Drink well now or cellar for the next 8+ years
Vintage: 2020
Region: Limestone Coast
Alcohol: 15%