2021 Estate Stone Well Shiraz
2021 Estate Stone Well Shiraz
($38.25 Wine Club price)
A 100% Old Vine Shiraz grown on our Certified Organic home vineyard in Stone Well in the Western Barossa Valley. A blend of our Estate Blocks. Our Estate Block has varying soil types, but the soils are shallow, and the growing conditions tough. Matured for 20 months in a mix of new and seasoned French Oak, before being bottled unfined and unfiltered.
The wine has all the hallmarks of the Stone Well area - bright purple red hue, blackberry and earth, full bodied. The dense fruit is balanced by firm tannins. The Brilliant Vintage is reflected in this wine. A wine that will improve for many years in the right cellar conditions.
Technical Tasting Notes
2021 ESTATE SHIRAZ
GROWING SEASON
The 2021 Barossa Valley vintage will be remembered as an almost faultless season after the challenging years that preceded it. Good spring rains meant that for the first time in many years we entered the growing season with good soil moisture levels. A warm dry growing season followed, with balanced and healthy canopies producing an average crop of extremely high quality fruit. Certainly the best in a decade, maybe longer. The good news is that flavours and colours (in reds) and overall quality is exceptional. A truly great Barossa vintage in the making.
TASTING NOTE
Our Estate Stone Well Shiraz from the very good 2021 vintage is a blend of 5 primary Shiraz blocks on the Estate; Block 1, 6, 9, 10 and 11. The vineyard and resulting wine are Certified Organic. The soil varies significantly across the blocks with different topsoil depths - vines are on own roots and were planted in the late 1940s.
The wine has all the hallmarks of the Stone Well area - bright purple red hue, blackberry and earth, full bodied. The dense fruit is balanced by abundant natural tannins. Quite plush as you would expect from such a wonderful vintage. A wine that will cellar well in the right conditions, but can be consumed on release.
SPECIFICATIONS
Region: Barossa Valley
Sub Region: Stone Well
Variety: Shiraz
Alcohol: 14.5%
Production: 3000 bottles
Cellaring: Drink 10 Years Plus
Winemaker: Andrew Seppelt
Download Technical Tasting Notes 2022 Vintage ➝
Download Technical Tasting Notes 2021 Vintage ➝
Reviews
2022 Estate Stone Well Shiraz
AARON BRASHER (real Review)
93 Points - Inky, deep, dark and opaque in the glass. Heady aromas of plum, mulberry, blackberry, sweet oak, graphite and spice. Full flavoured, powerful and super concentrated in flavour, but there's also lovely shape, texture and savouriness. Full of opulent dark fruits, spice, menthol and ferrous earth. The tannins have real presence and texture. A powerfully built, yet structured and sophisticated wine 30 JAN 2024
2023–2033
Steve Leszczynski (www.qwinereviews.com)
93 Points - A blend of Block 1 and Block 9 from the Hayes Family Wines certified organic Stone Well vineyards, these two blocks sit less than 50 metres apart but the difference each parcel brings to the blend is most interesting. Quite simply, it's a lovely drink. The vines were planted in the 1940s and the dominance from the Block 1 is telling with its vines feeding off more topsoil and a sandstone base as opposed to Block 9 which has no topsoil and gravelly loam over white clay.
Ribbons of silky fruit roll out the welcome mat. It's one of those wines you can't help but keep sipping and it urges you to sit up and take notice. It sees a small portion of new French oak for 20 months. Blackberries and juicy blueberries fold into one another with dark chocolate and puffs of earthiness. It slowly dries out with an array of soft spices etched into the fabric. The acid is balanced but the juicy fruit is fabulous as it whispers calling you back time and again. Big love. Give me another glass, please.
Drink to ten years+
2021 Estate Stone Well Shiraz
Dave Brookes (James Halliday Wine Companion)
93 Points - Certified organic shiraz from Stone Well. Deep, purple-edged crimson in the glass with aromas of blood plum, blackberry and black cherries on a bed of baking spices, licorice, earth, violets, cocoa powder and macerated berry fruits. Crème de cassis-like opulence on the palate, which shows dense, powdery tannins and a fine acid line, finishing long and flush with ripe black fruits and spice.
Stuart Knox (real Review)
90 Points Dense ruby to a rich purple rim. Plum preserve, mocha, and ironstone aromas. Rich and dense with ripe black fruits on the palate, some mocha and vanilla oil characters suggest a good hit of oak. It still carries good length and over time the components should meld 08 FEB 2023
2023–2033
2020 Estate Stone Well Shiraz
Steve Leszczynski (www.qwinereviews.com)
92 Points - A blend of the estate blocks on the Hayes property, sometimes such wines are looked upon as the dregs thrown into one. Not so. Some blends, such as this one, are an exercise of winemaker skill - bringing together parcels of fruit to get the right balance of fruit, oak and acid. One wine that highlights such blending expertise for me is the Thomas Wines Elenay. Give this Hayes Shiraz a chance to open up and you'll see what a beauty it is.
Purple fruits hit the dance floor with soft spices shaking things up. A bed of plums is framed by cocoa and tar. The more time it sees, the more it shows coffee grounds and aniseed characters. Some earthiness lurks with a finish that is deep, dense and persistent. A great Shiraz that will also benefit from some age.
Drink to eight years+
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