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Date Printed: 10/7/2008
(search item no. 89424)
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James Halliday rating: 91 points
The Wine Advocate rating: 89 points
PRICE ON 10/7/2008: $15.99

ratings pedigree (past vintages):
2006 James Halliday rating: 93 points
2006 Wine Spectator rating: 90 points
2003 James Halliday rating: 91 points
2003 Wine & Spirits rating: 90 points
2003 The Wine Advocate rating: 89 points

Winemaker's Notes:

The Shiraz/Viognier possesses the most uplifting, complex bouquet (honeysuckle, blackberries, and currants). This fruit-driven, medium-bodied, succulent red exhibits sweet tannin, loads of fruit, and a seductive style. This offering should find tremendous success in the American marketplace.
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About Zonte's Footstep:

Last century, a group of old school mates founded these vineyards in the Langhorne Creek wine region, one of Australia's oldest wine grape districts just South East of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, on the spectacular Fleurieu Peninsula. Planted mainly to red grape and beloved Shiraz, there are also some significant plantings of whites, including the pioneer plantings of Viognier in the district, and with more than 50 acres of the variety planted, quite possibly the largest planting in the Southern Hemisphere.

These are serious wines that restores one's faith in the purity of winemaking during an age of vinous homogeny.