Heirloom Vineyards

McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017

This Heirloom Vineyards Shiraz was sourced from our neighbours the McMurtrie Family’s extraordinary and low yielding old vines, just adjacent to the Salopian Inn, where Ross McMurtrie, Vigneron was born. Hand tended vines, sorted bunch by bunch, naturally open fermented, with regular hand plunging and gentle pumping over to extract colour, flavour and tannin. Aged in some new but mainly 3 and 4 year one-year old French and Bulgarian oak barriques for 16 months.

AROMA

The aromatics of McLaren Vale’s Shiraz: white pepper freshly milled; white chocolate freshly microplaned; pstachio husks; a friendly neighbour’s plum tree laden at season’s first flush and a zephyr carrying that smell... A floral, petuna-addled nosegay.

PALATE

Dry and long with a grainy and rolling wave pattern of gentle tannins topped with silky white chocolate and blackberry fruit. Licks of acid around the edges of fruit flavour spark much joy... A round and dry back palate is like a lightly starched and freshly ironed Egyptian Cotton dinner shirt waiting for a silk bow tie.