2022 Coach House Block Shiraz

COLOUR | Dense black with red edges.

AROMA | A very strong bouquet Christmas cake, prunes, raisins, cassis, tobacco, apricot, nutmeg, cinnamon, grandmas blackberry jam. incense, bark and fresh plum.

PALATE | The palate opens with a flowing, sweet core of rich, boisterous fruits that initially seem impenetrable. Flavours of boysenberry and blackberry liqueur unfold, wrapped in a dense, layer of preserved fruits. The massive fruit presence harmonises beautifully with the underlying structure, showcasing the quintessential character of Barossa Valley Shiraz from the Western Ranges. With a bit of air, the wine evolves further, revealing spice notes of dark chocolate, caramel slice, baking spice. This is a wine that will continue to evolve, offering immense enjoyment for many years to come with its great density. Or, drink now!

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 | Several small parcels from the Coach House vineyard were picked on the 21st of April. Crushed and de-stemmed into open top fermenters and pressed once dry, with an average time on skins of 10 days. All free run and pressings were combined in tank and then racked off to gross lees into barrel to go through malolatic fermentation. The wine was bottled with minimum fining and no filtration.

MATURATION | 18 months in up to 50% new French oak and 2/3 year old hogsheads. 4 barrels bottled in November the following vintage.

CLOSURE | Diam Cork
VOLUME | 750ml
VARIETAL | Shiraz
ALCOHOL (% vol.) | 14.3%
REGION | Barossa Valley
SUB-REGION | Greenock
VINE AGE | 26 years
ALTITUDE | 256m
AVERAGE RAINFALL | 450mm
SOIL | Deep grey-red loam containing coarse quartz and ironstone gravel over clay.