Shiraz

Brilliant deep purple in appearance. There are strong berry and vanilla spice characters on the nose.
The palate is full and rich, typical of Water Wheel wines, with noticeable berry and liquorice flavours. The wine has excellent length with a long and persistent finish balanced with fine, chalky tannins.

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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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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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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.

*** 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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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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** 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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"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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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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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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Rated as Exceptional - the highest level - in the Langton's classification of Australian wines.
"A complete Barossa traditional Shiraz; moderate alcohol, oak and tannins, yet full of flavour and character. Has taken full advantage of a very good vintage. 96 points"
(James Halliday Australian Wine Companion)
2004 is a great year for this legendary Shiraz, sourced from a network of old-vine vineyards. Basket Press is right at the top of the tree in Barossa Shiraz, putting more expensive wines in their place.



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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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