HardysEileen Hardy Shiraz 2012
Dry, Full Bodied style of Shiraz
McLaren Vale, Australia
About this product
Dry, Full Bodied style of ShirazMcLaren Vale, AustraliaHallmarks of this wine include ripe fruit alongside spiciness and savoury characteristics. An opulent and perfumed wine with ripe, gamey, blackberry and liquorice aromas, spicy nuances and fine, silky, dense tannins.
Hallmarks of this wine include ripe fruit alongside spiciness and savoury characteristics. An opulent and perfumed wine with ripe, gamey, blackberry and liquorice aromas, spicy nuances and fine, silky, dense tannins.
- TypeShiraz
- Size750ML
- RegionMcLaren Vale
- Current Vintage2012
- Standard Drinks8.58
- Alcohol Volume14.5%
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NameHardys
- Wine MakerPaul Lapsley
- Vegan Friendlyfalse
- ClosureScrew Cap
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyFull Bodied
- Organicfalse
18 Awards
- More about Mike Bennie
Mike Bennie
Australian writer, judge, presenter and reviewer for The Wine Front
Vintage 2012
94 points The Wine Front
Fine feeling wine of hallmark power, glide, and depth of perfume and flavour. It’s an aromatic shiraz that showcases ripe, blue and black fruit character with judicious but prominent spicy, tobacco-and-clove oak. Rich and heady. Flavours are strict, black fruited, plummy, dusted in earthy spice, trimmed with chewy oak tannin and yet the wine finds a sleek flow through the ropes of slender tannin finishing granitic, spicy and twiggy. It’s young, firm and springy in texture too. Structure is impressive; it feels like a very well crafted wine.
James Halliday
Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker
Vintage 2012
97 points Halliday Wine Companion
Shiraz from 100+yo vines, wild yeast open-fermented, matured in 70% new French oak. It proclaims its extreme class from the first whiff of blackberry, plum and licorice, but equally quickly disavows what might be characterised as a McLaren Vale cliche: overt dark chocolate. Instead spicy, savoury, beautifully structured tannins (and quality oak) add both textural and flavour complexity - all this with perfect line, length and balance.
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