2022 Charlie's Garden Shiraz

COLOUR | Deep ruby with a purple hue.

AROMA | The aromas leap out of the glass, cola, sage, cardamon, violet, eucalyptus, mocha, cherry, blackcurrants, flora.

PALATE | The palate hits with energy, focused and linear, launching into a band of explosive dark fruits that take off. Fresh blackberry notes add brightness, while complex layers of dried violet, pipe smoke, and cracked black peppercorns amplify through to the finish. The fruit is delicious and concentrated,
rebounding across the tongue with a soft reverberating acidity that reveals a minerally edge in the tannins. When they emerge, they penetrate deeply, creating a soft and silky texture.This is a serious bottling that evolves gently while sitting in the glass, showcasing a remarkable depth to the tannins. While this wine will age beautifully under the right conditions in a cellar, it’s already immensely enjoyable upon release.

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.

WINEMAKING | Fermented in a five 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.
Charlie’s Garden was bottled unfined and unfiltered.

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

CLOSURE | Diam Cork
VOLUME | 750ml
VARIETAL | Shiraz
ALCOHOL (% vol.) | 14.4%
REGION | Eden Valley
SUB-REGION | Menglers Hill
VINE AGE | 13-84 years
ALTITUDE | 460-490m
AVERAGE RAINFALL | 800mm
SOIL | Quartz, gravelly loam and silty loam over yellow clay.