The wine has great balance of flavour, alcohol, sweetness and acidity. The result is a wine with peach, lychee, passionfruit, pear and subtle lemon zest flavours complemented by fullness and some sweetness in the middle palate and cleansing acidity.

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Multi-Trophy Winning Wine including Best Value White Wine in the 2009 International Wine Challenge
Winner Best Australian Riesling Trophy IWC 2009
Winner Clare Valley White Trophy IWC 2009
A wonderful wine and just 11.5% alcohol as well!
"Clean, green and complex. Lime and tropical fruit, with a dry apple core, and notes of oatmeal. Lots of fresh acidity. Palate has a nice pleasing roundness, with quite a long finish."
The World's Best Wines 2009


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GOLD Medal International Wine Challenge 2009
"Tim Adams is one of Australia's greatest winemakers, one of Australian wine's nicest blokes, and one of Australia's fairest producers when it comes to producing stunning wine and then asking a modest price for it. For this price, you simply can't find better value in these islands." Oz Clarke
"Honeyed, citrus, floral and waxy aromas. Mandarin and ginger character on the palate. Mineral acidity, which is structured for ageing. Full, with tremendous depth. Very long, lingering flavour" The World's Best Wines 2009
""Youthful, oaky and restrained, but with lovely honeysuckle and herbal complexity. " Tim Atkin (The Observer)

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Hyatt International Riesling Awards Canberra October 2006
TROPHY Best Riesling in Show
TROPHY Best Current Vintage Riesling
SILVER Medal International WINE Challenge 2007
"If you want to experience the pure, crystalline nature of Australian Riesling, Tim Adams does it as well as any. His wine is full, but dry and austere, minerally dry flecked with lemon sherbet, green apple core and lime zest. Chill it down. Love it."
Oz Clarke (Oz Clarke Wine Buying Guide 2008)

The use of only the very best 500 litres per tonne of grapes has resulted in this wine being very intensely flavoured and aromatic. The wine has very lifted riesling character with citrus aromatics of lime and lemon. The palate is seamless with moderate viscosity and brisk acid finish. Use as an aperitif or with any seafood. Riesling wines from Clare Valley are most enjoyable when young and zesty, or left to mature beyond five years of age. This wine has been sealed with screw cap to ensure its freshness and authenticity.

*** This is a 6 bottle case - to make up the minimum order of 12 bottles, you will need to add another case of wine (6s or 12s) to your order.***

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""Brilliant, old-vine Shiraz with masses of minty, spicy, plummy, oak-saturated power." Tim Atkin (The Observer)

The Aberfeldy vineyard is a unique site - friable red loam over limestone nestled at the bottom of the eastern most hills of the Clare Valley, just 5 km south east of the township of Clare. When the Birks family of Wendouree fame settled the area they planted this site with Shiraz in 1904. Many of these vines remain and those which have perished have been replaced with rootlings of the same clones. The cropping level in the vineyard is never more than 1.5 tonnes per acre, producing grapes with intense colour, flavour and tannins. This fruit is the backbone of ‘Aberfeldy’ Shiraz.
The wine has vibrant magenta colour with aromatics of cherry, plum, dark berries and chocolate complemented by the oak derived characters of clove, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla. The palate is full bodied with dark berry conserve flavours and balanced oak, tannin and acidity. The wine has persistent sweet fruit and oak aftertaste, with power and great finesse, and will reward patient cellaring.


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** Silver Medal International Wine Challenge 2008 **
"Fresh, fruity, with a note of green pepper. With a lovely freshness on the palate, spicy notes, and a real lift, this is really mouthwatering on the finish. International Wine Challenge 2008

Blending fruit from a range of local vineyards has produced a wine with both regional and varietal definition. The wine shows bright magenta colour and aromas of red berry conserve and spice, enhanced by the complexity gained from 12 months American oak maturation. The palate is full and soft in the front and middle, with the flavour of small berry fruit again the oak complementing the fruit. The finish is medium to firm, with tannins coming from both fruit and oak. The wine has not been cold stabilised and so may form a harmless crystalline deposit in the bottle, necessitating decanting before serving. This wine has power and finesse, making it both approachable now and worth keeping for up to 10 years under good cellaring conditions.

*** This is a 6 bottle case - to make up the minimum order of 12 bottles, you will need to add another case of wine (6s or 12s) to your order.***

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"Serious, balanced, rich Cabernet, marvellously dense, a perfect example of why Clare is such a special growing environment: the sun has ripened the grapes to their max, but the cool conditions have preserved a mouthwatering freshness. It still needs a few years' age, but if you like your reds thick and strong you can lay into it now. The mixture of leaf and blackcurrant in its smell is Bordeaux-like, and the dark blackcurrant fruit, lightened by mint yet hemmed in by tannin and acidity, is reminiscent of a young Pauillac. If that's not high praise, I don't know what is."
Oz Clarke (2009 Oz Clarke Wine Buying Guide)
Tim Adams has taken the best Clare Cabernet fruit he can find and beefed it up with 11% Malbec The addition of the Malbec adds to the complexity of the palate which is dominated by fresh blackcurrant and rhubarb aromas and flavours. Twenty-four months in French oak provides spice and balance to this full-bodied style. I will cellaring well for up to ten years.

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GOLD MEDAL (Best in Class) International Wine & Spirit Competition 2009
" Tim continues his incredible ascent to the pantheon of great Aussie winemakers (where they presumably drink awesome wines all day and night!), albeit with wines that everyone can afford and with uncharacteristic stealth, modesty and integrity. A big man, 'Bonecrusher' Adams is surprisingly subtle and contemplative and this is a clue to the sheer brilliance behind his staggeringly delicious wines. The Fergus is a complex blend of Grenache, Cabernet, Shiraz, Cabernet Franc, Tempranillo and Malbec and it sees only old oak hogsheads for twelve months, which allows the fruit to dominate the end wine and not raw, unattractive oak unlike many of his neighbours' wines. It is drinking perfectly now, but it will mature for a decade. It is succulent and plush and yet complex and intricate at the same time. For around a tenner, you will be gob-smacked at the quality on offer here. " Matthew Jukes
"Rich, concentrated mouth entry, grabs the attention immediately with quite surprising suppleness. Rich and fleshy, with a funky dark side. Be careful, this is so seductive that it could be termed entrapment!"
International Wine & Spirit Competition 2009

The fourteenth release of ‘The Fergus’, named after Tim's neighbour who was good enough to sell Tim his grenache grapes in the vintage of 1993 during a desperate shortage of shiraz and cabernet. The wine has lifted red berry aromas and flavours, complexed by grenache spiciness and given extra back palate astringency by the blending of other red varieties. It is a mouth-filling wine that may be kept for up to 10 years, but will go nicely with duck, turkey, lamb and gamey meats any time soon.
Grenache grapes were crushed on to fermented and drained skins of Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Malbec. Fermentation on skins lasted one week. The tanks were then topped and closed for two weeks prior to pressing the skins. The wines were then racked several times before filtration and transferred to old American oak. They remained in oak until blending, fining, filtration and bottling.

*** This is a 6 bottle case - to make up the minimum order of 12 bottles, you will need to add another case of wine (6s or 12s) to your order.***

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The use of only the very best 500 litres per tonne of grapes has resulted in this wine being very intensely flavoured and aromatic. The wine has very lifted riesling character with citrus aromatics of lime, lemon and grapefruit. The palate is seamless with moderate viscosity and extreme acid finish.
This is a new, special release from Tim Adams. The very best Riesling fruit from the vintage were put aside and treated with kid gloves to make this reserve wine. The fruit has intense lemon, lime and grapefruit characters and brisk acidity.
Riesling wines from Clare Valley are most enjoyable when young and zesty, or left to mature beyond five years of age. This wine has been sealed with screw cap to ensure its freshness and authenticity and will cellar for 20 years in good conditions.

*** This is a 6 bottle case - to make up the minimum order of 12 bottles, you will need to add another case of wine (6s or 12s) to your order.***

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