Z WineHein Ancestor Vine Shiraz
About this product
Here is the full completion based on Langmeil's official description:
This wine is extremely rare due to the age of the vines. The low yielding Ancestor Shiraz vines in Langmeil are believed to be 140 years old. Hand picked and hand plunged with whole berries and a small percentage of whole bunches. The most elegant structure will ensure that this wine is a sleeper with many years of development to come. A special offering and well beyond your standard Barossa Valley Shiraz in both history and character. The aromatics are unique to such old vines, producing a complex array of dark berries, sweet spice, and earthy complexity.
Here is the full completion based on Langmeil's official description:
This wine is extremely rare due to the age of the vines. The low yielding Ancestor Shiraz vines in Langmeil are believed to be 140 years old. Hand picked and hand plunged with whole berries and a small percentage of whole bunches. The most elegant structure will ensure that this wine is a sleeper with many years of development to come. A special offering and well beyond your standard Barossa Valley Shiraz in both history and character. The aromatics are unique to such old vines, producing a complex array of dark berries, sweet spice, and earthy complexity.
- TypeShiraz
- Size750ML
- RegionBarossa Valley
- Current Vintage2017
- Standard Drinks8.3
- Alcohol Volume14%
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NameZ Wine
- Wine MakerJANELLE ZERK
- Vegan Friendlyfalse
- ClosureDiam Cork
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyMedium Bodied
- Organicfalse
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Huon Hooke
Prolific Australian wine reviewer for Fairfax Media and The Real Review
Vintage 2017
The Real Review
Deepish red colour with a tint of purple, but not as dark or dense as other wines from this maker. The bouquet is reticent, reserved and perfumed, subtle and fine, with greater elegance and less concentration and brute power than some of their other shirazes. Talc and charry oak and red berry, violet fruit aromas. The tannins are very fine and nicely modulated, the texture refined and supple, svelte and long in the mouth. It has delicious flavour, detail, elegance and charm. A really lovely wine and not the massive blockbuster we might have expected. Yum! (1346 bottles produced)
James Halliday
Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker
Vintage 2017
97 points Halliday Wine Companion
The ancestor vines at Langmeil are believed to be 140yo, the vineyard surrounded by houses. Hand-picked, fermented with 10% whole bunches, the remainder whole berries, matured in French oak. The colour is light crimson, the wine exceptionally elegant and fragrant. The fruits are more red than black, fine tannins providing texture and structure. All in all, a testament to the vines.