Greenock Creek Seven Acres Shriaz 2009 Barossa Valley, South Australia Australia

About the winery

The grapes for this wine are picked from our Seven Acre vineyard which was planted in 1990. It is situated on the Radford Road property at Seppeltsfield just south of Greenock, and as the name proposes is pretty nearly 7 acre of land in size. The vines crop at 1.5 to 2.0 tons every acre and are kept separate to create a solitary domain wine. Similarly as with every one of our grapes they are singled out phenological readiness and flavour at a baume range of 14 to 16º. This baume once in a while delivers a commonly happening high liquor, despite the fact that this will rely on occasional conditions.
The grapes are aged in expansive, shallow open masonary fermenters, pumped over, chilled and squeezed through a basket press. It is then racked into barrels to experience common MLF, keeping the free run and pressings separate to be mixed back together before packaging. The wine is pumped into seasoned American hogsheads with a little rate going into new oak barrels. It is then left to develop for approximately 27 months, and is generally not separated or fined before packaging.

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 2009 flavours additionally incorporate berries much fresher than the dried currants which just clog the wine's fragrance, there's musky confectioner's sugar there amongst sweet crisp blackcurrants and redcurrants; even raspberry. It's grandly rich wine all up: flexible and twisted, splendidly acidic, with velvet tannins drying its long, decreasing tail. At twenty years of age, it will simply ravage the patient cellarer. It will likewise blow a large portion of the south of France and the Rhone clear into the wild blue yonder, its astonishing red of genuinely alarming potential.