Craneford Allyson Parsons Shiraz 2003 received 89pts from Parker's Wine Advocate: '...a terrific bargain...'

Tasting Notes

1/14/05 John Zilm from Craneford has the knack for producing wines with excellent structure while still offering immediate accessibility on release. His latest addition to his portfolio, Allyson Parson’s Shiraz, is a value oriented offering out of the Barossa. As with all of Zilmie’s wines this has a ton of personality and excellent depth with ultra fine tannins and gobs of sweet fruit, nuanced with savory tones of pepper, leather, spice and chocolate. Plump and medium-full bodied this has blueberry, dark raspberry and kirsch, liqueur flavors that are intense but nicely balanced by licorice, spice and chocolate inflections with a seamless structure and beautifully integrated, sleek tannins. This really delivers a lot of wine for the money.

Winemaker's Tasting Notes: It is a stylish wine showing lovely fruit flavours, softness, richness and good length. The wine is medium bodied, easy to drink and a good style of wine for those who like their wine soft and flavoursome without being too alcoholic or too astringent. The wine is well balanced with good length.

Food Accompaniments

It is a wine you can drink by the glass and also enjoy with a range of meat and cheese dishes.

Awards, Reviews and other Notes

89pts, Robert Parker, Jr., The Wine Advocate, #155 10/25/04 "A terrific bargain, the 2003 Shiraz Allyson Parsons (14% alcohol) is a juicy, fruit-driven, 100% Shiraz that spent time in used French and American oak prior to bottling. This soft, seamless, plump, fleshy, classic Southern Australian red will drink well for 1-3 years."

Winemaker Notes

Viticultural practices: Rod and Spur pruned. 1654 clone. I find this gives me the best bunches and the option of picking at different times during vintage because of the varying soil types it in on in the Barossa. I get at least 1 month from the first picked to the last and I can get into the vineyard to asses the fruit before picking. Folliage wires, hedged and then thinned after veraison. Generally good fruit set and consistent fruit. Soil types: Sandy Loam, Loam, rich black loam.
Yields per acre: 3.5 tons
Number of cases per item produced: 3000
Appellation: Barossa Valley
Filtration & fining: No 10 filter pads only.
Varietal composition: 100% Shiraz
Wood treatment: 16/18 Months in French and American Oak. All seconds.
Length of barrel maturation: 16/18 Months.
Winemaker's notes: I have chosen the fruit for this wine from a number of barrels and vineyards in the Barossa. All of the fruit is of very good quality.

Chemical Analysis

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Alcohol: 14.00%
pH: 3.54
Total Acid: 6.48
Residual Sugar: 2.2
Free/Total Sulfur: 20ppm at Bottling

$9.99

$16.99

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