2006 RESERVE SHIRAZ
TASTING NOTE
COLOUR: Medium red, excellent purple edge.
NOSE: Intense, savoury vibrant Shiraz; black fruits, plums, good complex roasted meats, slight tar and anise.
PALATE: Bright, focused and perfectly weighted; fruit profile is savoury, complex and very fine. Plum and cherry fruit is enhanced by mature fruit extract and bright natural acidity. A very focused, unforced wine with tremendous energy and wonderful balance.
- Matt Harrop, April 2009
WINEMAKING
FRUIT: Selectively hand picked old vine fruit from a Yarra Glen vineyard, combined with low cropped fruit from our Dixon’s Creek vineyard. Cropped at 2 tonnes per acre.
WINEMAKING: Grapes gently destemmed to an open fermenter. A small portion of whole bunches were added and the ferment allowed to proceed using naturally occurring yeasts. Post fermentation maceration was 12 days, total time on skins 22 days. The wine was pressed, then transferred to a mix of new and used French barriques for MLF and maturation. The wine was racked and bottled in March 2007.
MADE AT: Shadowfax
QUANTITY: 160 Dozen
ALCOHOL: 14.1%
CLOSURE: Screwcap
