Greenock Creek Ronnfeldt Road Shiraz 2005 Barossa Valley, South Australia Australia

About the winery

The grapes for this wine are picked from a solitary home vineyard on the Roennfeldt Road property at Marananga close Greenock. The vines are around 80 years old, and this is the smallest vineyard. The vines crop at 1.0 to 1.5 tons per acre of land and the grapes are singled out phenological readiness and flavour at a baume scope of 14 to 16º. This baume can create a naturally occurring high liquor, despite the fact that this will rely on occasional conditions.
Following picking the grapes are fermented in huge, shallow open fermenters, pumped over, chilled and squeezed through a wicker basket press. The free run and pressings are kept separate through development and mixed back together one week prior to packaging. Taking after essential maturation the wine is racked into barrel to experience characteristic MLF.The wine is left to develop in barrels (all new French hogsheads) for a sum of 36 months and after that packaged. The wine is normally not separated or fined preceding packaging, and is then left in jug to develop for an additional 24 months. This accordingly implies that the wine has been in barrel or container for in overabundance of five years preceding its discharge.

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

The 2005 Roennfeldt Road Shiraz is profound purple-dark in color. It shows and fantastic cluster of professed spice, earth, floral and appetizing fragrances: blackberry jam, dried mulberries, espresso, flame broiled duck, vanilla, cloves, fenugreek, violets and dried rose petals in addition to a few shavings of dark chocolate. Full and extremely rich in the mouth, at 17.5% proclaimed liquor this is not a wine for the faint hearted. Though youthful it's now multi-layered and the rich tissue is all around upheld by a decent spine of fresh corrosive and an high level of smooth tannins. The completion is, long. This Shiraz has extraordinary parity for the liquor and despite the fact that the wine leaves a touch of warmth in the completion it neither overwhelms nor degrades the layers of complex flavours.