Australia, Barossa Valley
Shiraz
Description
The intensity of and vibrancy of this wine hits you with a wall of flavour. This shiraz ratchets up a gear as it runs the length of the palate and caress just like a Barossa shiraz should. An elegant wine of refined beauty and power that tightens up and commands authority. Sheer elegance seeps though the palate.
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Analytical data
dry
Vinification
De-stemmed (but not crushed) and fermented in three to ten tonne open top fermenters, with regular pump overs (2-3 times daily over peak fermentation) to extract colour, flavour and tannins. Some parcels had 20% whole bunch ferment and punchdowns. Average time ‘on skins’ was 16 days before the dry free run was drained to tank and the pressings combined. After 24 hours the wine was then racked to barrel, where malolactic fermentation took place. Aged on fine lees, the bottled wine is unfined and unfiltered.
Maturation
Aged for 17 months in French oak hogsheads and puncheons, with 13% new and the remainder in older oak.
