Stats
- Grapes: 100% Shiraz
- Vineyard: God's Hill Vineyard
- Vine Age: Average: 35-years-old
- Soil Type: Alluvial wash with grey loam over ironstone rich clay
- Viticulture: Practicing Organic
- Fermentation: Native – crushed, 100% whole-cluster
- Skin Contact: 8 days
- Aging: 18 months in mostly French barrique (25% new) with a small portion of American oak
- Alcohol: 14.5%
- pH: 3.5
- Total Acidity: 6.1 g/L
- Total SO2: 74 ppm
- Total Production: 20,000 cases
- UPC: 9342160000096
Tasting Note
Deep, dense, bright violet purple. Grainy. The nose has dark chocolate aromatics, with a subtle bouquet of soy, lavender, pink peppercorns, rosemary, and eucalyptus bark when it rains. The palate is plush with berry flavors, and flows with sweeping tannins as if taken by the tide.
Press & Reviews
VinePair
93
*Featured on VinePair's '30 Best Red Wines for 2024' list*
"Oh, look! Elena Brooks made another amazing Shiraz. This one is from Australia’s renowned Barossa region, made under her Dandelion label.This is yet another example of why we should bring Shiraz back into our collective drinking culture. Similar to her McLaren Vale bottling, this wine shows that the grape is ready and willing to show a sense of place in Australia. This one is big and fruit-forward, with some wood char and plums on the nose. Even a hint of coffee swims up to say “Hey.” It has a great palate with ripe fruit and good acidity to break up the depth. A slight bitter note on the finish adds to the complexity. Welcome back, Shiraz! Thanks, Elena!"
- Keith Beavers
"Oh, look! Elena Brooks made another amazing Shiraz. This one is from Australia’s renowned Barossa region, made under her Dandelion label.This is yet another example of why we should bring Shiraz back into our collective drinking culture. Similar to her McLaren Vale bottling, this wine shows that the grape is ready and willing to show a sense of place in Australia. This one is big and fruit-forward, with some wood char and plums on the nose. Even a hint of coffee swims up to say “Hey.” It has a great palate with ripe fruit and good acidity to break up the depth. A slight bitter note on the finish adds to the complexity. Welcome back, Shiraz! Thanks, Elena!"
- Keith Beavers
Halliday Wine Companion
93
"There is a lot to like here with a distinctly contemporary take on a classic Barossa style that centres around fruit purity and pure drinkability. Super-ripe black cherry, blackberry and satsuma plum fruits, an array of spice, purple florals, licorice and kirsch tones, superfine sandy tannins and bright cadence, despite the opulence of the fruit. Pretty impressive stuff at this pricepoint."
- Dave Brookes
- Dave Brookes
Wine Advocate
90
"The 2021 Lionheart of the Barossa Shiraz is concentrated and very ripe in the mouth, with goji, dried cherry, kirsch, mulberry and prunes through the finish. The wine is charry and lean in its way, with an obvious whole-bunch portion of the wine standing above the rest of the flavors and textures here. It matured in a combination of French and American oak for 18 months. This offers plenty of Shiraz for the money. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap."
- Erin Larkin
- Erin Larkin