Stats
- Grapes: 100% Shiraz
- Vineyard: Koomilya (Blewitt Springs)
- Vine Age: 80-years-old
- Viticulture: Practicing Organic - Regenerative
- Fermentation: Native — stainless-steel
- Aging: 14 months in oak puncheons
- Alcohol: 14.0%
Tasting Note
Deep, complex. The nose is redolent of red berries, earth, and baking spices. The palate is ripe with plums, blackberries, and chocolate, and the tannin structure is round and powerful. This is a superb Shiraz.
Press & Reviews
Halliday Wine Companion
97
"From a block of 80yo vines on the estate Koomilya Vineyard. Hand-picked, 10 days on skins, pressed to tank, thence to used puncheons for 14 months. Deeply coloured, this immediately sets the rules of the game as it looks back 50 years ensuring it is the fruit that speaks, not the winemaker, St Henri, not Grange. Black fruits, sombre notes of earth and persistent, but ripe, tannins fill the mouth. The future of this wine stretches out of the horizon of the mind." - James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)
The Wine Front
95
"It’s quite different to the JC block, although, of course, similar. Like siblings, perhaps. Here we have cherries steeped in brandy, mint, iron, juice of prune and plum, though freshness is not taken hostage as a result. Dense, a bit chewy, a little warmth, but like a hug from an old friend, long lost, but well met. Ink wells and old desks, brine and blackberry. Sweet and savoury on a long and umami finish. Terrific. Verity and integrity. It’s a wonderful wine." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)