Zonte's Footstep The Lake Doctor Shiraz 2010
Syrah/Shiraz
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Varietal
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Vintage
2010
Size
750ML
ABV
14.5%
Features
Screw Cap
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Winemaker Notes
There is a touch of Viognier in this wine (though not represented on the label) which adds a welcome degree of freshness and elegance to the full-bore nature of the Shiraz. Notes of bay leaf, cracked pepper and assorted baking spices enhance the strikingly pure mulberry and black raspberry aromas. The palate exhibits emphatically applied flavors of blackberry and spiced plum along with subtler nuances of cinnamon, spearmint and graphite. Supple tannins and respectable acidity work together to add focus and definition.
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This wine is named for the cool afternoon breeze that arrives from Lake Alexan-drina, sustaining the freshness in the grapes for this blend, which includes five percent viognier. It has a bitter chocolate scent and plenty of umami backing up the finish, edgy and mouthwatering in its black fruit flavors. The savory complexity will meld with cumin-rubbed lamb off the grill.
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.
OBCZ10LDSH_2010 Item# 122483