First Drop Mother's Milk Shiraz 2008

Syrah/Shiraz from Barossa, South Australia, Australia

90 Robert
Parker

2021 Vintage In Stock

22 99

OFFER 10% off your 6+ bottle order

Ships Tomorrow

You purchased this 10/12/23

Limit Reached

You purchased this 10/12/23

First Drop Mother's Milk Shiraz 2008 Front Label

Product Details

Varietal

Syrah/Shiraz

Region

Barossa, South Australia, Australia

Producer

First Drop

Vintage

2008

Size

750ML

ABV

14.5%

Features

Screw Cap

Your Rating

0.0 Not For Me NaN/NaN/N

Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Not a sledgehammer style, this Barossa Shiraz is made for drinking! Soft, slurpy and textured it is balanced with good acidity, which refreshes the palate and makes you go back for a second / third glass. Sourced from 3 unique vineyards, it is fruit laden, savoury and dangerously easy to drink! It is matured for 15 months in 100% old French oak hogsheads to allow the fruit to express itself.

Garnet red with purple hues color

A complex nose of dark cherry and blackberry aromas with a hint of forest floor and spice.

Pa l a t e Vibrant dark cherry and blackberry with a hint of ‘wombat rolled in all spice' balanced with an even, textural palate with soft, supple tannins

Ce l l a r i n g Drink up, but also a 5-8 year proposition.

Professional Ratings

90 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Matured in seasoned oak on yeast less for 15 months, the 2008 Mother’s Milk Shiraz displays a very deep garnet-purple color. The nose begins with a whiff of rubbery reduction giving way to warm blackberry, kirsch, tar and licorice aromas plus hints of nutmeg and coffee. Full-bodied with medium-firm fine grained tannins, very high acid and plenty of fleshy, spiced-up fruit, the finish is long. Drink it now to 2015.

Other Vintages

2021

92 James
Suckling
92 Wine
Spectator
91 Robert
Parker

2020

94 James
Suckling
92 Wine
Spectator
90 Wilfred
Wong

2019

94 James
Suckling

2018

96 James
Suckling

2017

92 Wine
Spectator
92 James
Suckling

2016

90 Wine
Spectator

2014

92 Wine
Spectator

2013

90 Wine
Spectator

2012

90 Wine
Spectator

2006

90 Robert
Parker

First Drop

View all products

First Drop is based at the ‘Home of the Brave’ winery in Nuriootpa (Barossa Valley, South Australia) they describe their winemaking philosophy as “A sensibility for tradition with a passion for innovation.” This shines through in their eclectic range of wines that seek to show sensitive expressions, where site selection is paramount. They source fruit from vineyards in the Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale and Barossa to deliver a diverse and exciting line up.

Syrah / Shiraz Wine

View all products

Marked by an unmistakable deep purple hue and savory aromatics, Syrah makes an intense, powerful and often age-worthy red. Native to the Northern Rhône, Syrah achieves its maximum potential in the steep village of Hermitage and plays an important component in the Red Rhône Blends of the south, adding color and structure to Grenache and Mourvèdre. Syrah is the most widely planted grape of Australia and is important in California and Washington. Sommelier Secret—Such a synergy these three create together, the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre trio often takes on the shorthand term, “GSM.”

Barossa Wine

South Australia

View all products

The Barossa Zone encompasses the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley. Some of the oldest vines in Australia can be found here.

Barossa Valley of course is the most important and famous wine growing region in all of Australia where 140+ year-old, dry-farmed Shiraz vines still produce inky, purple and dense juice for some of Australia's best wines.

In the cooler, wetter Eden Valley sub-region, the Hill of Grace vineyard is home to famous Shiraz vines from the 1800s but the region produces also some of Australia’s very best and age-worthy Rieslings.

VWB9742008_2008 Item# 107825