2022 Harriet's Garden Shiraz

COLOUR | Deep red with a purple hue.

AROMA | Notes of tea, potpourri, dark cherry, lavender, fresh cut flower, cranberry, pomegranate, white pepper, cinnamon.

PALATE | The fruits are delightfully soft on the palate, balanced by a core of mouth-watering acidity. This wine presents a leaner profile compared to much of the Two Hands portfolio, creating an intriguing energy and vibrancy. A burst of sour cherries emerges on the finish, making for an enjoyable experience. It stands apart from our other Shiraz, inviting you to truly appreciate its unique character. The tannins are wonderfully rounded, leaving a lingering impression of sweet fruit complemented by refreshing sour notes that keep you engaged. In all this is a really interesting wine that shows exactly what can be achieved with Shiraz vines from a very cool climate vineyard.
It’s drinking beautifully right now, and will shine even more during its early aging period. With so much complexity already, you won’t be able to resist reaching for a bottle from the cellar in the first few years—it’s irresistibly lip-smacking!

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.
Harriet’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.) | 13%
REGION | Adelaide Hills
SUB-REGION | Hope Forest
VINE AGE | 18-28 years
ALTITUDE | 400m
AVERAGE RAINFALL | 850mm
SOIL | Silty loam with ironstone over
orange-brown clay.