Greenock Creek Ronnfeldt Road Shiraz 2007 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 RRs are dependably a considerable challenge to approach.Always forceful paying little respect to wide changes in liquor, they push the way of mixed bag, clone, vine age, terroir, place, and wine making trustworthiness to the compelling. Blackberries and mulberries, figs and dates are the fruits abundant in this offering; new cut and just afire is the oak. At that point there's the smell of hundreds millions years of history compacted and dried in the hard stones underneath. So that makes  just three sections at this infant stage, and they're standing apart. In the same way as other of these rare Roennfeldt Shiraz wines,  this is not especially complex, however its serious, and flawlessly, transparently, sincerely healthy and giving. I think this is here and there the character of antiquated vines in intense places in difficult years like '07: in their revered propriety, they  get to be more straightforward, yet decided and rewarding. To keep their brights up, they turn their energy down. It's not Porty or  syrupy, but squishy. With great acid.A comforting liquor which could also brace one. A pre-battle tonic; an extravagant after-dinner confection.