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WINERY RATING |
James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2013 |
The Red Baron shiraz delivers vibrant fruit with a rich soft entry leading into a blend of red berry, cherry and plum fruits framed with smooth ripe tannins. A wine to enjoy now for its fresh juicy style.
Appearance
Vibrant purple.
Bouquet
Intense aromas of mulberries, blackberries, plums and cherries, interwoven with nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves.
Palate
Fresh juicy red berries, plums and black cherries lead into a vanilla custard mid palate with hints of toast, coffee and mocha. The youthful tannins complete the experience with an injection of fresh toasty oak on the finish.
Winemaking
Ideal ripening conditions during Feb and March led to great colour and flavour development. Harvest was slightly later than usual, with most fruit enjoying the slower ripening period and became flavor ripe at moderate sugar levels. Each batch was open fermented for 7-8 days on skins with low intensity pumpovers conducted to preserve the primary fruit flavours in the wine. The wine was then pressed off to finish fermentation in tank or old oak barrels. Most batches spend part of their maturation time in old French and American oak.
Viticulturalist
Nick Wiltshire
Winemaker
Scott Zrna
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