2008 Valley Australia Wine

The Barossa Region is known for its viticulture and wine making. At its heart is the valley floor, a rich strip of land exposed to the driest conditions and home to some of the most select Shiraz vineyards of the area. The 'Valley Floor Shiraz', like other premium wines of the Barossa, is a regional blended wine. Grapes are sourced ...

Bursting with lime and lemon the aroma of this wine heralds a great drink. Bright and crystal clear with pale green hues, the wine is crisp and fresh on the palate with great length and moreish sweet fruit. Lovely now but with the potential to age for many years.Enjoy with grilled octopus, antipasto or tapas.

The color of this wine is pale gold with green tints. The nose displays liftedcitrus zest and fresh quince with subtle notes of white nougat and toastedalmonds. Finely structured and seamless, the palate is all about texture.Creamy nougat, citrus and hints of white nectarine combine elegantly with thesubtle nuances of French oak and a restrained citrus acidity for a lingeringfinish. ...

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

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.

Medium red with a purple hue. Attractive varietal fruit characters of cherry and raspberryare evident with underlying gaminess and spice on the nose. Toasty oak adds further complexity to the wine's bouquet, but does not dominate. Medium bodied in style with silky texture and length. Cherry and plum fruit characters dominate the palate withunderlying gaminess and spice.

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.

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.

Structured with precision and intensity. Lots of flavor and pristine fruit with classic Shiraz Viognier characters. Very long and focused.

The 2000 vintage of this wine was ranked #6 on the Wine Spectator's Top 10 Wines of 2003Penfolds RWT Shiraz presents an admirable alternative to the multi-regional sourcing and American oak maturation that area hallmarks of Grange, expressing instead, single-region Barossa Valley Shiraz matured only in French oak. The initials RWT stand for 'Red Winemaking Trial', the name given to ...

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, red, crimson color. Lifted aromas of blue berries and blackcurrants mingle with biscuit sweet French oak, briary spice and a hint of cool menthol. A mouthful of juicy blue fruits hits the palate, balanced with briary spice and a wonderful oak sweetness. Hints of licorice and black olive add to the complexity and flow through with velvety fine tannins ...

On the nose Citrus and subtle cashew notes with soft mineralityand great freshness. Clean & minerally.On the palate Good texture and roundness on the middle palate,linear acidity with wonderful length and precision.

Very deep crimson in color with purple hues. Lifted, sweet, satsuma plum, raspberry and peach aromas dominate with hints of biscuity french oak. Lovely sweet fruit gives a full, rich mouthfeel and is balanced with briary spice and fine drying tannins. The combination brings about a luscious, fruit driven wine with an extremely long finish.

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 superb handcrafted wine of complexity and intensity. Brilliant ruby red in color, the bouquet displays enticing aromas of blackcurrant, tobacco, green tea and mint. The palate is rich and concentrated while the elegant French oak gives a 'subtle lift' to the wine. Soft supple tannins add to the texture and weight, and the long, lingering finish. This wine will ...

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 ...

This outstanding collection includes three of our favorite 90 point rated Cabernet Sauvignons hailing from California's Santa Ynez Valley, Chile's Colchagua Valley and Australia's Coonawarra. These three wines are stand out examples of intricate and amazing new world Cabernet can be.Wine Gift Trio Includes: Chile: 2010 MaquisThe Hurtado family has owned the Vina Maquis vineyard for more than ...

The 2008 Petaluma Hanlin Hill Riesling is the product ofa drought vintage, which is becoming the norm.However, wonderful balance has been the hallmark ofthis vineyard since our first vintage in 1979 and in 2008we achieved low pH and high acid that winemakersdream about. Passionfruit, pear and apple aromas andflavors are backed up by lovely intense lemon-lime with a slatey, mineral ...

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 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 ...