Traditional Australia Wine

This wine was ranked #7 on the Wine Spectator's Top 10 Wines of 1998The production of premium fortified wine has long been part of the history at Yalumba. Founder Samuel Smith first made port back in the 1860s, and the South Australian Governor (1914-1920) Sir Henry L Galway selected his own personal "pipes" from the Yalumba bodega. Today Yalumba maintains ...

Black, deep midnight purple. Liqueur coffee edge with Black Kat' licorice, tobacco leaf, lifted spicey leather, sweet earthiness and Kalamata skin. Superb clarity and brightness of traditional elements expected in a classic Australian Syrah. Black fruit and savory components mingle on a weighted, meaty structure. Expressive, bright characters are counter-weighted by restraint exhibited in ...

Blackened crimson. Leather, gunpowder, crushed rock, coffee-edged blue fruits and roasted meats dominate this Cornas styled expression. The seductively integrated and modestly amplified Syrah characters identify the Moritz vineyard's modern take on a traditional classic. The majestic savory edged tannin profile is finely grained and long winded. The luxuriously weighted flavor intensity is ...

Glaetzer Wallace takes on the traditional Barossa Valley blend ofShiraz and Grenache in a thoroughly modern way.Black cherries and winter fruits dominate the nose - which is pure,lively and captivating. Rich and rounded on the palate, the Grenacheadds blackberry tones and fresh acidity whilst the old-vine Shirazadds structure, hints of liquorice and bright fruit.A spicy, savoury, food ...

Wonderfully lifted, floral and fragrant, the blend is alluring and complex and shows that these non-traditional varieties to the Barossa have adapted to their new home as well as their red counterparts have done over the last century or so.Although beautifully enjoyable in its youth with sashimi and fresh shellfish this wine will continue to increase in complexity with time ...