Tasting Notes

Dense crimson with youthful purple hues. Lifted aromas of sweet cherry and plum entwined with dark chocolate, earth and allspice. On the palate, rich and full flavoured with juicy dark plum, chocolate, earth and black pepper with silky tannins and good length.

Food Accompaniments

Beef burgundy or Osso Buco.

Awards, Reviews and other Notes

90 pts Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar (JR)
Bright ruby-red color. Dark berry preserve and candied cherry on the nose, with cracked pepper and anise adding complexity. Supple dark berry jam flavors are pleasantly sweet and straightforward, with no rough edges or obvious tannins. Offers terrific immediate appeal and good finishing cling, picking up a subtle spicy note.

87 pts Robert Parker Jr.’s The Wine Advocate (JM)
The 2007 McLaren Parish Shiraz was fermented and aged for 14 months in 75% new French oak. Purple-colored, the nose exhibits pain grille, pepper, mineral, and blue fruits. This is followed by a firmly structured wine that will require a minimum of 3-4 years of further bottle age. Whether it will ultimately come into balance remains to be seen. However, the wine has plenty of fruit so enjoy it over the near-term before its structure starts to dominate.

Winemaker Notes

This Shiraz was sourced from the McLaren Vale region in South Australia. The wine was crushed, destemmed, inoculated with yeast then underwent primary ferment in vinimatics and static fermenters with manual pump over every 6 hours. Upon completion of primary ferment, the wine was then pressed and racked to new and 1 year old French and American oak for 12 months for MLF fermentation and maturation.

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831881000342

Alcohol %: 15%
Total Acid: 6.97
Free/Total Sulfur: 28/75
pH: 3.50
Residual Sugar: 0.3

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