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97
/ 100
James Halliday -
97
/ 100
Huon Hooke
Red
Classification
Shiraz
Variety
2012
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
Victoria, Grampians
Region
14.5%
Alcohol %
15 Plus Years
Cellaring
Scores
97 / 100"Sourced from the 90-year-old block adjacent to the winery and from other old plantings in the region; open-fermented and hand-plunged, matured in new and used French barriques for 14 months. The black fruit iron fist in the flowery, spicy velvet glove will guarantee the wine a prodigiously long life; it has the innate balance and length the region can provide like few others."
- James Halliday
97 / 100
"The bouquet is super-aromatic and beautiful, with intense spicy aromas that seem to indicate whole-bunch fermentation. The wine is full-bodied but wonderfully elegant and refined, with purity and length, nothing out of place. The tannins are superfine and the oak is unobtrusive. An outstanding shiraz that is developing beautifully."
- Huon Hooke
Tasting Notes
St Peter's Shiraz derives from low yielding vineyards planted on weathered volcanic soils. St Peter's Vineyard and Imperial Vineyard were established in the 1930s and Police and McKenzie Vineyards established in the late 1970s. During batch vinification in static and open top fermenters pump overs and rack and returns are used to extract colour and flavour. The wine is left on skins for 10 to 20 days post ferment to extract the "beautiful powdery tannins". After draining and pressing the wine is typically matured in French oak for 18 months in new (30%) and used French oak. This is a style in evolution; more recent vintages are fruit driven with bright blueberry, mulberry, blackberry aromas, fine chalky tannins and fruit concentration.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity