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WINERY RATING |
James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2013 |
McLaren Vale, South Australia. Our most celebrated wine, first made in 1994. It has great depth of colour, aroma and flavour, typical of the best wines of the McLaren Vale region. The Reserve has an extraordinary range of flavours with blackberry, blackcurrant, liquorice and dark chocolate. The wine has a rich sweet fruit mid palate and the finish is long. While approachable when young, it is best cellared...
Tasting Notes
Appearance
Intense dark garnet colour.
Bouquet
Red cherries, plums and a hint of herbaceous spearmint lift meld with the complex aromas of cinnamon, nutmeg and roasted chestnuts.
Palate
The palate is rich and full showing lashings of plums and cherries, with earthy nutty notes rounding out the mid palate. The wine finishes with great balance and length, and is characterised by the vibrant textural tannins which will soften as the wine ages.
Winemaking
Sourced from selected premium McLaren Vale vineyards blocks with a range of soil types contributing structural and flavour complexity. Soils include Bay of Biscay soils, grey loam, and red gravels. Harvested when fruit flavours, grape tannins and acids reached maturity. Fermentation on skins was for 8 - 10 days, with all wine completing fermentation in barrel for added texture and give a headstart to the integration of oak and grape tannins. During maturation the wine from each vineyard batch was targeted with appropriate oak styles to maximise its potential and produce the most complex and complete wine bases possible prior to blending. Our oak barrels are sourced from coopers in France, USA and Australia and are seasoned for 3 years. Maturation was for 18 months in both new and one year old oak barrels. Barrel by barrel selection during all stages of fermentation and barrel maturation to ensure only the best Shiraz barrels were selected for the final blend. Final blend proportions determined purely by quality.
Viticulturalist
Nick Wiltshire
Winemaker
Chris Dix & Scott Zrna
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