2008 Barossa Valley Shiraz

The wine is powerful with layers of ripe blackberries, dark cherries and luscious chocolate, mocha and macerated fruit characters.

Dense black purpley red in color with an aroma exhibiting a mix of freshbriary almost blackcurrant tones, balanced with violets and dark plums,finishing with an earthy, savory complexity. The palate is full bodieddemonstrating Barossa Valley hallmarks of richness, density andconcentration. Silky fruit complexity is the key here with both red and darkjubey flavors. The palate finishes with ...

2008 in the Barossa will be remembered as a difficult year due to a heat spike during vintage. Daily monitoring of fruit quality and flavor development was extremely important. Smart canopy management resulted in good, albeit extremely limited, quality.It was once the tradition of a small group of Barossa pioneers to retreat to the cool stone depths of an old ...

Dense crimson purple in color. Ripe dark cherries, summer pudding and blackberry jam with hints of cinnamon and vanilla. Rich and juicy with flavors of wild blackberries and black forest cake. The tannins are ripe and generous, while the finish is fresh, lingering and leaves the impression of ripe summer berries. Suitable for vegans.

Very dark purple with bright magenta hues. Shows lashings of chocolate, violet and delicious cedar. Rich and generous, the wine has wondrous dark chocolate, plums and black pepper flavours that persist through to a fleshy finish. It is held together beautifully with refinement and amazing focus.

The diversity of the Barossa landscape, its terroir the soils, elevations, rainfalls and temperatures all vary from one Barossa vineyard to the next. This means that Shiraz has many facets and allows for different expressions of the wine. With Eight Songs, we show a stylish, elegant and distinctly softer side to Barossa Shiraz.

This Shiraz is produced at Charles Cimicky. Charles Cimicky produces rich, voluptuous, generous wines with superb balance. Apart from minor drip irrigation in January and February, the vines are dry grown, cover-cropped and organically fertilized. Now in his late forties Charles Cimicky is one of the most quality-driven, meticulous winemakers in South Australia. Piping Shrike Shiraz is named ...

Deep ruby red color with bright purple hues.Dark chocolate, coffee, cinnamon spice, marshmallow and blackberries.Palate: Generous ripe blackberry, milk coffee, cocoa and dark chocolate with a hint of white pepper spice. Co-fermented Viognier component provides a soft, silky texture and added complexity to the palate.

A dense crimson red, this wine has distinctive characters of cedar, fresh spices and stalky redcurrants combine with black cherry fruits and black olives. The medium to full-bodied palate is layered with sweet fruit compote and dark fruits. A richly concentrated wine wrapped in a fine package, complete with long, fine grainy tannins. Built to handle at least ten years ...