Shiraz

This 100% Shiraz is made from fruit grown on two classic McLaren Vale vineyards. The classic richness of the McMurtrie Rd vineyard in the heart of the district is evident in this wine. However, it is the perfume and mineral texture of the Shiraz growing in the shale stone of Joe & Dina's Clarendon vineyard that sets this wine apart. This textural component brings balance and depth to the layered fruit and spice in this wine.
The wine has the classic plum and spice varietal characters of Shiraz, augmented by an 18 month stay in French and American oak barriques.It is both delicious and savoury. It's delicious drinking now or cellar for 8+ years.

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GOLD Medal International WINE Challenge
'Lovely complex nose of black fruit, basil and tobacco. Dense, chewy, rich and fruit-driven palate. Good structure, sweet tannins and long finish.'
The fifth vintage of JOSEPH Angel Gully Shiraz, 2007 was a classic dry vintage which yielded just one tonne per acre of pristine, concentrated fruit. Angel Gully's combination of cool evenings, deep shale stone soils and naturally low yields imparts spicy, peppery notes, concentrated dark fruit characters and a savory minerality on the palate. A small portion of the fruit was air dried after picking to provide an additional degree of complexity.
The hand picked fruit was crushed directly into traditional open-topped fermenters then manually pumped-over. The open-topped fermenters are at the heart of the JOSEPH red wine style. Joe Grilli, Primo Estate's owner and winemaker, says: 'The soul of a red wine is released where air meets the fermenting skins'. The final 18 month aging in oak used a combination of new and aged barriques from France and America.

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Winner "Best Victorian Shiraz" Victorian Wine Regions Annual Awards 2006/2007
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 93 points!
"Dense purple-red; medium to full bodied; a rich round and supple array of predominately black fruits; fine, ripe tannins; subtle oak. Drink 2013."
Intense aromas of blood plums, blackberries and wild forest fruits with toasty vanillin, cedar and cigar-box oak derived from the wine’s maturation in French and American oak hogsheads. The palate is rich and complex with lovely integration between the intense dark fruit flavours and fine-grained oak. This wine would complement a char-grilled Porterhouse steak, accompanied by caramalised onions and roast potatoes. Easily enjoyed now but will develop and age gracefully over the next 10 years.

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Year in, year out, Blue Chip is among the top Shiraz in Clare. Produced from Leigh Eldredge's vineyard, situated some 500 metres above sea level, it combines elegance with the full-bodied flavours of top class Shiraz. Dark brick red with purple hues. Spicy dark berry fruits with toasty vanillan oak. Exhibits rich sweet dark berry fruits which are enhanced by toasty fine grain tannins all combining to give a clean and inviting finish. A very approachable wine early in its existence that will only improve with age.

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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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""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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Dense, vibrant colour is a feature of this brooding beauty, along with very ripe, sweet fruit, reminiscent of plum, blackberry and pepper on the nose. The palate is generous, ripe and mouth filling exhibiting berry and cinnamon spice flavours, along with oak-derived mocha overtones and harmonious, soft yet defined tannins.

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Vivid red/purple in colour. On the nose there is berry fruit with hints of spice and aniseed. The palate exudes ripe strawberry fruit characters with spice and white pepper present. The wine is well balanced with fine, lingering, chalky tannins on the finish.
Ready to drink now and will continue to improve in the medium term.

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The 2008 Shiraz is vivid red/purple in colour. On the nose there is berry fruit with hints of spice and aniseed. The palate exudes ripe strawberry fruit characters with spice and white pepper present. The wine is well balanced with fine, lingering, chalky tannins on the finish.
Ready to drink now and will continue to improve in the medium term.

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"Doug Bowen makes some of the most elegant wines in Australia. This finely crafted, scented, complex, age-worthy Shiraz disproves the theory that Coonawarra is better suited to Bordeaux varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon." Tim Atkin (The Observer)
Bowen Estate's Shiraz is hand pruned and trellised with the 'hanging cane' method. This allows the grapes to utilize the sunshine to obtain optimum ripeness and flavour. The grapes are machine harvested, crushed and fermented on skins for 5 days. Approximately one third of the wine is barrel fermented in new wood each year. After racking, the balance of the wine is put into American oak barriques (225 litres) for maturation for about 20 months. The wine is then removed from the barrels, blended and bottled.
A lovely bright opulent wine with seductive sweet fruit, showing ripe spicy Shiraz flavours with a matching background of supple oak characters. The palate is medium bodied, well-rounded, finishing with soft tannins. This wine is made in the classic Coonawarra Shiraz style. The vintage of 2001 was characterised by wines that are fruit driven, elegant with a lovely palate structure of soft tannins and excellent palate weight.


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The wine is deep crimson in colour, with berry, hints of coffee and licorice characters on the nose. The palate is complex with firm tannins and sweet coconut / vanillan oak flavours.
It will cellar well for 5 to 7 years.

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This is a rich blockbuster of a Shiraz from a top Barossa winemaker.
Matthew Jukes wrote about this wine in his Top 250 Wines of the year:
"Steve Hoff may have even eclipsed his '02 (a past Top 250 alumini) with this sensational 2004 Shiraz. It has every element of classic Barossa Shiraz but the volume is turned down a notch, so the effect is profound, contemplative and not a little shocking."

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Steve Hoff produces this rich, smooth Barossa Shiraz from fruit grown on Ross Kalleske's Marananga vineyard, which was once under threat from property developers until the fruit found its home her. Full, rich and superbly balanced, it will develop over the next 10 years or so.

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A "weekend project" for Moet's top man in Australia (and the southern hemisphere), Dr. Tony Jordan and his wife Michelle, Spear Gully is a deep and vibrant red that shows the power and depth of a top Aussie Shiraz, but with a refined elegance that puts some of the blockbuster wines to shame.It will age for a long time.
Tony has used his unsurpassed contacts in the Australian wine industry to source special parcels of fruit for this wine. It shows typical cool vintage Shiraz characteristics of violets and spice combined with dark berry fruit, it is beginning to drink beautifully now and will cellar for another 5 years.



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A great Shiraz from the fabulous 2002 vintage. A "weekend project" for Moet's top man in Australia (and the southern hemisphere), Dr. Tony Jordan and his wife Michelle, Spear Gully is a deep and vibrant red that shows the power and depth of a top Aussie Shiraz, but with a refined elegance that puts some of the blockbuster wines to shame.It will age for a long time.

*** 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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Brothers Tim and Simon Adams, with access to top quality fruit from their respective Clare Valley and Barossa Valley locations decided to build on their close family bonds by jointly producing a wine that would sit with the very best, while still offering great value-for-money.
Both remain close to the soil though, Simon and wife Helen own the 70 year old "Dad's Block" vineyard, situated in one of the prime locations in the Barossa Valley. The gnarled, twisted vines yield a miserly 1 ton per acre - fruit of such huge intensity of flavour that has previously gone into such iconic wines as St. Hallett Old Block Shiraz, Rockford's Basket Press Shiraz and Chris Ringland's Three Rivers. This fruit forms 50% of the fruit for Adams Brothers' Shiraz.
The remaining 50% comes from the Clare Valley, specifically from Tim and Pam Adams' Sheoaks vineyard, planted in the early 1960s and in its early years its fruit was an integral component of Leasingham Bin 61. When Tim left Leasingham to set up on his own, one of his first steps was to secure the fruit from this vineyard, which has become the backbone for his world class Clare Valley Shiraz.
Both vineyards are hand-pruned and hand-picked so that only the highest quality fruit is chosen in the making of this wine.

*** 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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A brilliant value Shiraz made for us by one of Australia's top winemakers. Real Shiraz depth of flavour and a rich, smooth finish.

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Faith Shiraz is an excellent example of the rich, flavoursome Shiraz that the Barossa has to offer. An exceptionally rich and vibrant red, with wonderful purple hues, a classic spicy nose and displaying complex ripe cherry and raspberry characters, all rounded off by a smooyh, silky tannin finish. Enjoyable now through to 2012.

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A big, bold powerful red that pays tribute to Stuart Blackwell's role in developing the Shiraz that put St. Hallett on the map. A wine of great intensity and power which is drinking beautifully now and will cellar beautifully for 10 years or more.

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The wine that launched a thousand imitators, but was the wine that put Barossa Shiraz on the international map. Sourced from a selection of old Shiraz vineyards, ranging from 60 to 100 years in age, the mix of warmer Barossa Valley vineyards with the elegance contributed by the higher vineyards situated in the higher Eden Valley ranges this is a blockbuster, but with an elegance that sets it apart. An Aussie classic

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Almost completely black, tight as a drum, with loads of powerful fruit brooding in the middle. Simply amazing, loaded with blackberry, black currant, dark plums & cassis, incredibly concentrated, with hints of vanilla, spices, pepper and dark chocolate altogether. There are layers and layers of flavours hidden deep and ready to emerge.

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Charles Melton Shiraz is not one of those harsh tannin infested Barossa Shiraz, so much loved by U.S. Wine critics, rather a fragrant, delicious red and black fruits delight with great intensity and length. Charlie makes Shiraz that can be enjoyed noe or which can be cellared confidently for over 10 years.

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Vintage 2006 had a cool dry close leading up to the ripening period. Fruit was sourced from vineyards in Seppeltsfield, Tanunda, Kalimna, and Light Pass to maintain Tim's 'house style' of Barossa Shiraz. This release shows an extra dimension of finesse and structure, with the classic regional characters of Barossa Shiraz to the fore. It will last for many years.

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96 points James Halliday Australian Wine Guide:
"Deep crimson-purple; a classy bouquet promises spicy black fruits and quality oak, which the medium to full-bodied palate delivers in spades, with layers of flavour and perfect balance."

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