2022 Lily's Garden Shiraz - Two Hands Wines

2022 Lily's Garden McLaren Vale Shiraz

Name: 2022 Lily's Garden McLaren Vale Shiraz
Brand: Two Hands Wines
SKU: GSLIL227DOM-1
Price: 70.0 AUD
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Two Hands Lily’s Garden Shiraz is a generous McLaren Vale Shiraz, made from the pick of the bunch across our vineyards in this celebrated coastal region. As part of the Garden Series, Lily’s Garden brings a plush, expressive and deeply satisfying style to the collection, shaped by the warmth, sea breeze and sandy soils of McLaren Vale.

This wine is defined by cascading blue fruits, lifted aromatics and a rich, long palate. The generally sand-based soils found across our McLaren Vale vineyards help create softness, roundness and an inviting fruit profile, while still allowing the wine to carry freshness, balance and regional detail.

In the glass, Lily’s Garden offers layers of blueberry, plum, spice, dark chocolate and subtle savoury notes, wrapped in a smooth and generous mouthfeel. The label’s blue colour takes inspiration from McLaren Vale’s close proximity to the sea, reflecting the coastal influence behind this expressive Shiraz.

Tasting Notes

COLOUR | Impenetrable inky red, with crimson hue.

AROMA | A wave of enticing aromas rises from the glass, black and blue fruits, mocha, cardamom, expresso, dried fig, fresh plum, smoke, liquorice and cola.

PALATE | This wine boasts a rich, concentrated fruit character that envelops the palate with deep, dark fruits. Gradually, the acidity reveals itself, highlighting the round, supportive tannins. The mid-palate transition from a luscious coating to a drier
sensation, where a firm, mineral backbone allows the tannins to unfold beautifully on the finish. This wine captures the essence of McLaren Vale, showcasing ripe, full-bodied flavours that evolve into a captivating late palate marked by a harmonious blend of power, structure, and sweet fruit. Many will be drawn to the cascading layers of sweet, rolling fruit, which gracefully transition as the tannins gently reveal themselves. Like much of our 2022 Garden Series, this wine has all the right components for rewarding extended cellaring, ensuring a balanced and promising future.

The Growing Season

After our second La Niña year in a row, the vineyards received an above average winter rainfall, we then progressed into a very mild spring and an equally mild summer with only one day recorded over 40°C. Due to slightly later flowering, the vines were set up to mature at a slower than usual pace, this put the start of vintage back around 3 weeks on average, these mild ripening conditions allowed for slower than usual favour development, this matched with lower yield across the board has resulted in another quality harvest.

Vinification

WINEMAKING | Fermented in a five-ten tonne open top fermenter, with regular pump overs (twice daily over entire ferment) to control ferment, extract colour, flavour and tannins.

Average time ‘on skins’ was 10 days before the fermented juice was drained to tank and the pressings combined. The wine was then racked to barrel, where malolactic fermentation took place.
Lily’s Garden is bottled unfined and unfiltered.

MATURATION | Aged for 16 months in 2-4 year old French oak hogsheads, with up to 20% new French oak.

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Scores & Reviews

Wine Companion
94 points
Marcus Ellis
Published 07 August 2024

"This is a pan-regional blend, knitting together the characteristics of varying geologies and macroclimates. There’s violet and lilac, ground coffee and tar, boysenberry, blueberry and plum, dried seaweed, iodine, soft licorice and morcilla. The cool year has put a cap on sweetness of fruit, which is no bad thing, though it is still mouth-filling and intense, tannins chewy and layered, calling for food."