Robert Parker, Jr., The Wine Advocate, Issue #148 / 88-90pt Red Blend from Langhorne Creek, Australia

Tasting Notes

Winemaker's Tasting Notes: This wine exhibits regional mint and blackberry flavours along with spicy overtones. Maturation in both French and American oak has given the wine a fresh toastiness and added complexity which will assist the wines development over 4 to 6 years.

Food Accompaniments

Chicken chicken; teriyaki steak; filet mignon; grilled pork chops

Awards, Reviews and other Notes

88-90pts, Robert Parker, Jr.'s The Wine Advocate, #148 Readers looking for more mint/eucalyptus characteristics should check out the 2002 Shiraz/Cabernet, a heady concoction revealing copious quantities of black currant fruits along with the tell-tale mint. This impressively endowed, nicely textured, dense concentrated offering reveals the strength of this vintage in South Australia. Potentially bigger and richer than its 2001 counterpart, it will drink well for 4-7 years.
87 pts Wine Spectator 9/30/05 Smooth and plushly textured on a modest scale, with plummy flavors at the core, shaded nicely with nutmeg and meat notes on the finish. Drink now through 2009. 10,000 cases made.

Winemaker Notes

Viticultural practices: Combination of single wire and double cordon trellising; Foliage wires used on some vines; Alluvial loam soils; Part flood plain grown (50%), rich, silty soils.
Yields per acre: 4.0 tons
Number of cases produced: 10,000
Appellation: Langhorne Creek
Filtration & fining: Light egg white fining pre bottling; Polishing grade filter to bottle.
Varietal composition): Shiraz 55% / Cabernet Sauvignon 45%
Wood treatment: 3-5 year old American oak 225L + 300L barrels; French oak innerstaves in tank.
Length of barrel maturation: 12 months oak maturation.

• Machine picked fruit, 6 day ferment on skins, pump over twice daily for 30 minutes.
• Malolactic fermentation undertaken.
• Oak matured.
• Bottled.

Chemical Analysis

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Varietal

Alcohol: 14.3%
pH: 3.48
Total Acid: 6.5
2.2
Free/Total Sulfur: 28/61

$11.99

4580

Red Blend