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94+
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Gary Walsh
Red
Classification
Shiraz
Variety
2022
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
South Australia, Barossa Valley
Region
13.5%
Alcohol %
15 Plus Years
Cellaring
Scores
94+ / 100"Produced from Rhonda Lowke’s vineyard in Ebenezer, farmed by the well-renowned Adrian Hoffmann. This is an early 1900s organic vineyard. The wine is naturally fermented and is 100% whole bunch. Samantha Chandra is the winemaker, working somewhat in cahoots with Callum Powell of Agricola fame. This is wonderful. It does sleek and supple, faintly succulent, textural, deep and brooding, herbal and blue-black fruited and delivers a symphony in terms of balance and interest. Black plum, black olive, Aussie bush notes, dusty, woody spices with dark chocolate, faint gingery spice, cinnamon, turned earth and allspice is going on. It slips over the palate beautifully, even and flowing, soft and yet with a gentle chew of tannin in tow, somewhat river stone-like and silty. Wonderful wine. All class."
- Gary Walsh
Tasting Notes
V22 in Barossa Valley was a cool and wet season with memorable hail events leading to low yields and producing structured, flavourful wines.
The fruit for this wine was sourced from Rhonda Lowke’s vineyard in Ebenezer, now managed by Adrian Hoffmann. This early 1900s organic vineyard is on dark brown loam with rich ironstone and calcium. It is less than a hectare of concentrated, dry-grown shiraz.
A single tonne of fruit was produced from this low yielding site. It was wild fermented entirely as whole bunches and left on skins for two and a half weeks. The wine then matured in old hogsheads on full lees for about a year. Bottling took place on site without filtration or fining and all movements, from grape to wine, were done by gravity.
Production – 684 bottles
The label background was painted by Angela Oemcke and was created to mimic the waterways underneath the vineyard and convey Barossa Valley’s warmer climate.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity