|
|
Search WineStar: |
|
Medium-bodied, but intense and long, with lovely definition to the black cherry and plum fruit, showing no hint of thickness or sweetness; fine tannins sustain the long finish. 14.5º alc. Drink 2015 $37.50 Date Tasted Mar 08 Rating: 95 Points; James Halliday Wine Companion 2009 The fruit for Barossa Valley Estate's Shiraz was sourced predominantly from older vineyards at the northern area of the Barossa. Grapes were hand harvested from vines up to fifty years of age, yielding one to three tonnes per acre. Traditional winemaking methods were employed to ensure fruit intensity and length. Only the best Shiraz from the Barossa Valley Estate's Ebenezer growers is used to make this exceptional wine. When selecting fruit, the growers pick the best blocks from a variety of soil types to ensure complexity of fruit flavours, it is from these superior lots that this Shiraz is made. An impressive wine, deftly fashioned to exhibit superlative harmony between good fruit and fine oak. Alcohol 14.4% Bouquets of lifted cherry, chocolate and coffee. Sweet fruit with subtle hint of oak. There are elements of supple, raw blackberry fruit pinned up against wafer-like gasps of vanilla oak, mouth watering with successive hints of flourless choc-orange cake and highly scented coffee. The palate is rich with intense characters of fleshy red and black fruits, more layers of wood and chocolate, port-like, coffee and cakey spices, and integrated oak. Firm mouth filling tannins ensure a long and balanced finish. In all ways the quintessential Barossa Shiraz - powerful and intense with rich fruit and firm tannins. This is a wine that fully expresses the synergy of good Barossa fruit fashioned to traditional winemaking techniques
|
||||||