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97
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95
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95
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Tasting Notes
The fruit for our Gregor Shiraz is sourced from Shiraz vines planted in 1988 on our home block high in the Barossa Ranges. The soils up here are rocky, yellow podzolic matter over clays and we utilise double wire trellising in our vineyard.
The fruit is handpicked before being placed on racks and semi dried in the style of the famous Amarone wines of Italy. The grapes are then naturally fermented in open vats before being aged in new French Oak 1350L vats and puncheons for a period of 24 months. Bottled unfiltered.
This wine highlights all that is great about the Barossa Ranges producing fruit with structure and restrained power. Drinking beautifully now the 2016 Gregor will cellar for many years. Approx 600 cases produced.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity
Classification: Red
Variety: Shiraz
Vintage: 2021
Bottle Size: 750ml (Bottle)
Country: Australia
Region: South Australia, Barossa Valley
Alcohol %: 15.5%
Cellaring: 15 Plus Years
Scores
97 / 100"Immensely complex and enticing, the wine shows blackberry, vanillin oak, clove and cocoa aromas on the nose, leading to a gorgeously refined palate delivering velvety mouthfeel with beautifully melded tannins. Multi-layered and harmonious with a sumptuous mouthfeel, offering glorious drinking. At its best: 2025 to 2041."
- Sam Kim
95 / 100
"A wine which is of such enormous interest, as well as quality – an Amarone style from Barossa Shiraz. Handpicking into ten kilo buckets, before the grapes were laid out on racks to dry. It is no shrinking violet, and some may find it all a bit much, but for those who enjoy this style, they will revel in this wine. Dark maroon. Red cherries, spices, florals, a sweet core of cassis. This is all supported by notes of coffee beans, mocha and chocolate. Ripe and rich, and yet it is finely balanced with impressive length and soft, cashmere like tannins. This has at least eight to twelve years ahead of it. Delicious."
- Ken Gargett – Winepilot.com
95 / 100
"Estate-grown shiraz picked and semi-dried on racks in the appassimento method. A deeply coloured, aromatically dense wine that shows plenty of intense plum, prune and dark cherry notes underscored by hints of baking spices, grilled figs, cedar, espresso, panforte, roasting meats and earthy, ferrous tones. Deep and resonant with plush, meaty fruits, a touch of pastis and plenty of powdery tannins and fruit impact. It thunders off into the distance."
- James Halliday's Wine Companion
