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Region
Langhorne Creek, Australia
Variety
Shiraz (95%)
Viognier (5%)
Maturation
Aged in French and American oak barriques
Technical Analysis
14.5% alc/vol
Background
The fruit for this seductive wine is sourced from select vineyards within the Langhorne Creek district (approximately five hundred and twenty vineyard acres). Langhorne Creek is one of Australia’s oldest wine grape districts just southeast of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, on the spectacular Fleurieu Peninsula.
Last century, a group of old school mates founded the vineyards in the Langhorne Creek wine region, close to the original 19th century plantings. Although this area was mainly planted with red grapes and Australia’s beloved Shiraz, there were also some significant plantings of whites, including pioneer plantings of Viognier. With more than 50 acres of the variety planted, this area was quite possibly the largest planting in the Southern Hemisphere during the time.
Winemaker Notes:
Initially a fruit bomb, full of blackberries, juicy, soft and sweet. The full fruit flavors are married together with some subtle blonde tobacco and fine grained mouth puckering tannin. Medium bodied and finely tuned with refreshingly zippy tannins balanced by fine soft cedary oak flavors on a rounded fruit palate.
90 pts – SMART BUY “Broad and generous. A real mouthful of smoky, tar-scented blackberry and licorice flavors, persisting against fine tannins on the long finish.”
Wine Spectator
September 30, 2007
Langhorne Creek, Australia
Variety
Shiraz (95%)
Viognier (5%)
Maturation
Aged in French and American oak barriques
Technical Analysis
14.5% alc/vol
Background
The fruit for this seductive wine is sourced from select vineyards within the Langhorne Creek district (approximately five hundred and twenty vineyard acres). Langhorne Creek is one of Australia’s oldest wine grape districts just southeast of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, on the spectacular Fleurieu Peninsula.
Last century, a group of old school mates founded the vineyards in the Langhorne Creek wine region, close to the original 19th century plantings. Although this area was mainly planted with red grapes and Australia’s beloved Shiraz, there were also some significant plantings of whites, including pioneer plantings of Viognier. With more than 50 acres of the variety planted, this area was quite possibly the largest planting in the Southern Hemisphere during the time.
Winemaker Notes:
Initially a fruit bomb, full of blackberries, juicy, soft and sweet. The full fruit flavors are married together with some subtle blonde tobacco and fine grained mouth puckering tannin. Medium bodied and finely tuned with refreshingly zippy tannins balanced by fine soft cedary oak flavors on a rounded fruit palate.
90 pts – SMART BUY “Broad and generous. A real mouthful of smoky, tar-scented blackberry and licorice flavors, persisting against fine tannins on the long finish.”
Wine Spectator
September 30, 2007