Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2006 Barossa Valley, South Australia Australia
Greenock Creek
About the winery
Created in 1978, Greenock Creek is a little "boutique" Barossa winery with a generation level of just 2500 cases every year, possessed by Michael and Annabel Waugh. These wines, molded from old, low-yielding vineyards, have amassed very much a reputation. Greenock Creek is genuinely an estate winery. Their scope of Shiraz, cabernet sauvignon and Grenache is produced using grapes become totally on the property and handled on location at Roennfeldt Road. The wines are discharged in September every year and sell out inside a few months through cellar door and mail request. Greenock Creek's Roennfeldt Road shiraz is a notorious Australian wine that is much searched.
Winery Details
Greenock Creek Wines
54 Radford Road
Seppeltsfield, SA, 5355, Australia
Phone: (08) 8562 8103
Website: http://www.greenockcreekwines.com.au/
About the wine – Vintage 2004
This rich, dark red wine has complex fragrances of flavour and fruit, plums, berries and a sprinkle of dark chocolate with an enduring smooth completion. The 2004 Shiraz "Apricot Block" was matured for 28 months in older American oak. It has an expressive bunch of cedar, tar, pepper, violets, blueberry, and licorice. Full-bodied, easily textured, layered, and rich.