Mitchell, Clare Valley
Jane and Andrew Mitchell established the winery in 1975 on the Mitchell family property in the western hills of the Clare Valley in South Australia. An old sandstone apple store was converted to serve as a rustic cellar door sales area. Continued growth has resulted in further development of the winery buildings and winemaking plant.
Currently some 500-700 tonnes of premium fruit is crushed and processed in a well equipped modern winery. The imposing two-storey century-old family home sits amid the vineyards, overlooking the winery.
Mitchell McNicol Shiraz 2009
Grapes/Blend 100% Shiraz
pH 3.6
Acid (g/L) 5.75
Vinification
This wine is a small volume we select during vintage, individual parcels of Shiraz which show some distinctive characters suited to aging. Largely whole bunch fermented with natural (wild) yeasts.
Maturation
Aged in tight grained 500 Litre French oak barrels for 2 years in our humidified cellar before being estate bottled, then aged in bottle for a further 6 years prior to release.
Appearance
Inky Red.
Aroma
Fragrant spicy perfume lift.
Palate
Complex with a youthful display of dark fruit. Exotic spice and fresh acidity elegantly balances the fine tannins.
Expert Reviews
Australian Wine Reviews
95 Points
Cedary oak saunters through straight up. There's a fractional amount of fruit sweetness in the aromas too. The fruit is dark and dense yet soft and layered. Dark chocolate sits behind dark plums and black fruits. Brick dust like tannins plant themselves on the mid-palate as the fruit washes to a long and seductive finish. There's a beguiling freshness for its ten years of age. A finely crafted wine of sleek pleasure.
28 June 2017
Mike Bennie
92 Points
Chewy, deeply flavoured wine of intense dark fruits, liquorice, dry, sinewy tannins. It’s a powerful hit of dark berry/cherry aromas, stewed plums, cinnamon, allspice and fennel with woody notes swirling around. Good beefy flavour, meaty and full in a flourish of dark fruits, stains the palate well and pulls into a long, chalky pucker. A touch dry-dry to finish, but the overall feel is good, and fresh, and with time to go.
The Wine Front, 25 April 2017
James Halliday
91 Points
All the cellaring has been done for you, a good start for any serious shiraz. The limitations lie in the vintage, one which had none of the celebrated (if that be the word) challenges of 2008 (or 2011), but did have disassociated fruit and hard tannins. Those tannins have softened, but so has the fruit.
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2017
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