2022 Bella's Garden Shiraz

COLOUR | Bright crimson with black core.

AROMA | Dark chocolate, berries, raspberry, hints of eucalypt, sage, black pepper, clove, violet, vanilla and liquorice.

PALATE | The fruit gracefully unfolds on the palate, revealing the Barossa Valley’s signature textural brilliance as it transitions from robust, pure flavours to a long, velvety finish. This young wine displays remarkable poise, with clean and pristine aromatics.
The texture gradually reveals itself, culminating in a late palate that showcases wonderfully soft tannins that linger like a gentle whisper. There’s so much to appreciate here—this is Barossa Valley purity at its finest: precise, persistent, and well-defined. This 2022 vintage promises longevity, while it can be enjoyed now, its true potential will unfold with time in a cool cellar.

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 five to ten tonne open top fermenters, 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.
Bella’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
REGION | Barossa Valley
ALCOHOL (% vol.) | 14.6%
SUB-REGION | Ebenezer, Greenock,
Kalimna, Marananga, Moppa Hills,
Seppeltsfield, Stockwell, Stonewell
VINE AGE | 19-43 years
ALTITUDE | 200-320m
AVERAGE RAINFALL | 450-500mm
SOIL | Predominantly rich red/brown clay.