JPB Limited Release Shiraz 2017

Description

The colour is a deep almost black red showing a slither of violet-purple on the hue. Aromatically the wine is complex and concentrated with plum, blue fruits and raspberries, layered over coffee and dark chocolate oak. The full-bodied palate is driven and powerful; the oak is a feature, but it’s almost completely absorbed by the concentrated dark fruit flavours. Although it’s intense, the balance of all components make the wine enjoyable now but will cellar happily over the decades to come.

Awards

96 pts James Halliday Wine Companion

Certificates

Vinification

Harvested from the estate’s Blewitt Springs vineyard at approximately 1.4t per acre, the fruit was crushed, destemmed and soaked for two days prior to fermentation to extract maximum colour without the production of alcohol. Fermented on skins for nine days before pressing, the wine was transferred to 100% new oak Puncheons (60% American, 40% French) to undergo malolactic fermentation. Following MLF the wine was aged in barrel for 17 months before bottling without fining or filtration.

Vineyard: Blewitt Springs Estate

The fruit for this wine is sourced from selected rows in the family’s own Blewitt Springs vineyard in the McLaren Vale region. Planted in 1960, the vineyard’s free draining sandy soil, mild to warm climate and high elevation create a site perfectly suited to growing premium low yielding Shiraz grapevines.