Chris Ringland

Dry Grown Shiraz 2004

Chris Ringland's Barossa Ranges Shiraz is steeped in the Barossa’s post-colonial story and the high art and science of wine-making. Typically deep in colour with intense dark berry, pane-forte, espresso roasted chestnut aromas, it displays a plush and concentrated palate with blackberry, mocha, pane-forte spicy flavours and dense fine chocolaty tannins. Despite the opulence, flamboyance, richness and concentration, the wine has superb percussion and freshness. The +unusually thick skinned+ Shiraz is entirely sourced from Chris Ringland's dry-grown vineyard on the edge of the Barossa Valley, but technically in Eden Valley, along Flaxman's Valley near Randall's Hill. The wine is +painstakingly hand-made+ in open fermenters and regularly pumped-over to extract colour, flavour and tannins.