Cool Shiraz Red Wine

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 ...

It was once customary for a small group of zealous Barossa pioneers to regularly seek the cellar retreat of an old vineyard cottage. Within the cool stone depths of this hidden refuge, these normally hard working men whiled away many a contented hour with both cards and wine. Now a lingering part of Barossa history, the crumbling remains of this ...

Deep purple red in colour. Rich, ripe and jubeyblackcurrants and plums with cool fresh minty notesand cedary oak. A full-bodied wine with an immediate up front fruit impact. Showing rich, sweet flesh but finishing leaner with fine powdery tannins. Certainly a wine to cellar for the medium term, up to 5-7 years.

It was once the tradition of a small group of Barossa pioneers to retreat to the cool stone depths of an old vineyard cottage.Here they would while away many hours playing cards and drinking wine away from the critical eyes of puritanical souls. Thecottage still stands among the vines that produce this wine, a flavorful, aromatic drink that always 'comes ...