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Agricola Vintners

2023

‘DWxHV’

Shiraz   |   Barossa Valley - Australia
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About

Here is another great Shiraz from the almighty Callum Powell, a visionary and one of the Barossa Valley’s greatest young guns. In typical Callum fashion, he’s managed to source some of the Barossa’s best and oldest fruit for this bottle. The 2023 DWxHV is a blend of Hoffmann Dallwitz Shiraz plantings dating from 1996 back to 1888, and the Angas family’s 1961 Hutton Vale Shiraz plantings. In his label artwork, which he does himself, Callum combines two of his great passions: history and art. This bottle adorns the mid 19th century ‘Seven Special Surveys’ map of the Barossa Range. The 2023 vintage was a significantly cool, prolonged harvest; many of Callum’s sites were picked two weeks later than usual.

The Shiraz grapes were hand harvested and placed as intact clusters in a closed stainless steel tank. The juice fermented over the course of three to four weeks, after which the wine was racked to a used demi-muid and barriques where it remained for 12-14 months. The wine was bottled without fining or filtration, and it received just a small dosage of sulfur.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Shiraz
  • Vineyard: Dallwitz and Hutton Vale
  • Vine Age: 27-to-135-years-old
  • Soil Type: Red clay and ironstone
  • Viticulture: Practicing organic
  • Fermentation: Native — stainless-steel (semi-carbonic)
  • Skin Contact: 3-4 weeks
  • Aging: 12-14 months in a demi-muid and barriques
  • Alcohol: 14.1%
  • Total SO2: 50 ppm
  • Total Production: 200 cases

Tasting Notes

Bold and brash, this opens with dark plum, warm spices, and a touch of smoky leather, balanced by earthy tea and a hint of rare meat. Rich plum and cola notes drive the palate, underpinned by structured tannins and a twist of citrus peel. It has an Italian edge, but it’s all Barossa at its core.

Press & Reviews

The Wine Front

95

""This is quite potent but still manages a sense of freshness and prettiness. Scents of ripe plum, ginger biscuit, cumin and cardamom in a big way, bloody meat, black tea, new leather and anise. Evocative. The palate shows off rich, dense fruit characters, intense black plum, cola, more gingery notes, that similar riff of curry spices, strong black tea feel to the fine but firm tannin profile and some bergamot and bay leaf to finish. Feels quite Italianate in a way – an almost robust sangiovese-esque profile, and good for it. But still, the beating heart of Barossa is writ large. Tremendous."

- Mike Bennie

Producer


Agricola Vintners

Region


Barossa Valley

Country


Australia

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