WendoureeShiraz 2014
About this product
A spectacularly individual wine, Wendouree Shiraz typically possesses a core of blackberry and black olive aromas with complex iodine, wet bitumen, and cured hide characters. The low-yielding, beautifully formed old Shiraz vines—tortured and serpentine (many from the original plantings)—are unique, producing small berries with thick skins and a very high seed content. The fruit is vinified in stainless steel-lined open fermenters. Maturation takes place in roughly 20% new oak for around a year. Although approachable when young, it possesses extraordinary longevity and structure to age gracefully over several decades.
A spectacularly individual wine, Wendouree Shiraz typically possesses a core of blackberry and black olive aromas with complex iodine, wet bitumen, and cured hide characters. The low-yielding, beautifully formed old Shiraz vines—tortured and serpentine (many from the original plantings)—are unique, producing small berries with thick skins and a very high seed content. The fruit is vinified in stainless steel-lined open fermenters. Maturation takes place in roughly 20% new oak for around a year. Although approachable when young, it possesses extraordinary longevity and structure to age gracefully over several decades.
Full bodied red wines have a noticeably textural mouthfeel with bold, complex flavours. Often deeply coloured.
Dry wines have no trace of sweetness at all.
- TypeShiraz
- Size750ML
- RegionClare Valley
- Current Vintage2014
- Standard Drinks8
- Alcohol Volume13.6%
- Langtons ClassifiedExceptional
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NameWendouree
- ClosureScrew Cap
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyFull Bodied
James Halliday
Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker
Vintage 2014
97 points Halliday Wine Companion
100% shiraz from Central Vineyard bushvines planted in 1893, and the Eastern Vineyard planted in 1919. The wine takes a lot of air via glass swirling to express itself, but ultimately does so emphatically. Plum, black cherry and spices paint the flavour picture, and expand prodigiously on the back-palate and finish. As the late Len Evans would have said, it has flawless line, length and balance.
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