Hollick The Bard Shiraz 2016

Hollick is an important Coonawarra winery with a very fine reputation among fine wine drinkers. In some respects it is something of secret even though it won the coveted Jimmy Watson Trophy in 1985. Curiously it has a very quiet profile on the secondary wine market despite the outstanding quality of its wines. Ian Hollick, who had been Mildara’s national vineyard manager for many years, established the Hollick vineyard on 12 hectares of prime Coonawarra Terra Rossa soil in 1975. A winery was built in 1984. The cellar door is the former childhood home of John Shaw Nielson, a prominent Australian lyric poet of the late 19th century. Today the winery has around 200 acres of vineyard holdings including plantings of Italian varieties Sangiovese and Nebbiolo.