2021 Reserve Shiraz
($127.50 Wine Club price)
(6 Bottle Limit)
Our 2021 Reserve Shiraz from the great 2021 vintage comes from the Northern districts of Koonunga and Ebenezer, one barrel from the Hoffmann Ancestor Shiraz block, the other from Block 15 of the Schulz Ebenezer block.
The wine has all the hallmarks of Northern Barossa Shiraz is a great season - powerfulbright purple red hue, blackberry and earth, full bodied. The dense fruit is balanced by abundant natural tannins which keeps everything in check. A wine that will cellar for as long as you like in the right cellar conditions.
Technical Tasting Notes
2021 Reserve 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 2021 Reserve Shiraz from the great 2021 vintage is a blend of our two best shiraz barrels of vintage, Block 15 in Ebenezer and a Hogshead from the central section of the Hoffmann's Koonunga Ancestor Block. Two historic blocks in a truly great season. The wine has all the hallmarks of Northern Barossa Shiraz - bright purple red hue, Blueberry and blackberry dominates the nose, intense fruit backed by a great depth of natural tannin. Tremendous balance for a wine of such fruit weight.
A wine that will cellar for as long as you like in the right cellar conditions. A true best of vintage wine in a great vintage.
Region/Sub Region: 100% Barossa Valley / Ebenezer, Koonunga
Grape Variety: 100% Shiraz
Alcohol: 14.6%
Production: 500 bottles and 100 magnums
Cellaring: 10+ years
Serve: With a range of meat and vegetarian dishes
Winemaker : Andrew Seppelt
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Reviews
2022 Reserve GRENACHE
Vinous (Angus Hughson)
95 Points - The 2022 Grenache Reserve is a rare, single vineyard Barossa Grenache, with only 300 bottles produced. Superb composure marks it from start to finish, although it remains embryonic and tightly wound. The wine radiates with a deep-set core of perfectly ripened dark cherry, new leather and brooding dark earthy fruits. The structure is equally impressive, with dense tannins and vibrant acidity providing a long, sustained finish, accentuated by ham bone and smoky complexity. A fantastic overall package that promises plenty with time.
Drinnking 2027-2035
2021 Reserve Shiraz
Not Yet Reviewed
2019 Reserve Shiraz
2023 James Halliday Wine Companion (Dave Brookes)
94 Points - The shiraz hails from Block 9 on the estate's Hillside Block in Stone Well. Certified organic fruit and made by Andrew Seppelt. Pretty fruit aromas of blackberry and satsuma plum are lifted by hints of violets, oak spice, dark chocolate, boysenberry pastries, earth and a whiff of oats. There's a lovely fruit flow to the wine, drawn into line by fine, ripe tannin and bright acidity, finishing long, elegant and pure of fruit.
2019 Reserve Cabernet
2023 James Halliday Wine Companion (Dave Brookes)
94 Points - From a patch of old vines on V&A Lane in Coonawarra. Made by Andrew Seppelt, just 300 bottles. Classic aromas of blackberry, cassis and blackcurrant with classy, cedary oak, dark spice, some lovely floral high tones and an understory of light briar and herbal notes. Medium bodied, with a taut canvas of ripe black fruits, tight, robust tannins and impressive persistence, it seems set for excellent cellaring potential.
2018 Reserve Cabernet
James Halliday (theaustralian.com.au)
96 Points - Bottle 1 of 300. A single barrique doesn’t always work, but this does - and extremely well. The colour, the pristine black and redcurrent fruit, the tannins and the oak are harmonious and perfectly balanced on the medium to full-bodied palate. You have to make an early call on the oak, with limited options to fine tune. 14.4% alc, screwcap
Drink to 2040
Tyson Stelzer (thewinecompanion.com)
94 Points - From old vines on V&A Lane. 300 bottles. A firm, structured cabernet for the long game. Shut up like a trap right now, it leads with firm, fine French oak tannin. Classy oak, albeit difficult to see past it now. Glimpses of blackcurrant fruit occasionally coming up for air. The integrity of the finish confirms its potential, holding medium to good persistence and balance of acidity and fruit, even if those tannins impose for now. All it needs is time – and a lot of it.
Ralph Kyte-Powell (realreview.com)
96 Points - Good depth of colour here, and it has a concentrated, complete nose of black fruits, black chocolate, black olives, oddly serendipitous with its black label. An appropriate level of lightly camphory oak input works well, and the medium to full-palate is densely packed with intense flavours of dark berries, cassis, dark chocolate and slightly raw oak. This is a real pup of a wine and it will develop more refinement and complexity with time in bottle. It's a classic in the making, and while it's something to marvel at right now, you'll have to be patient to see it at its best.
Drink 2024 to 2041
2016 Reserve Shiraz
Huon Hooke (realreview.com)
96 Points - Deep, dense, concentrated red/purple colour with a slightly shy nose which hints at smoky char oak and black fruits. The palate is very fruit-sweet, almost luscious, almost as though there's residual sugar, a massive fruit-bomb, but it also has formidable tannin and structure to keep the balance. A massive, beamy style of shiraz, and very good in its way, if not my personal favourite. It is bordering on syrupy, but there's just enough tannin to keep it in check. A very impressive, spotlight-hogging style of wine. (300 bottles) 30/3/2018
Drink 2020 to 2038
2019 Wine Companion (Campbell Mattinson)
96 Points - Grown on a small section of vineyard at Ebenezer. It spent 20 months in a single French barrique. 300 bottles only. It not only has depth it has spread. We're looking at boysenberry and blackberry, plum and toast, with wood smoke and clove characters wafting through. It's both pretty and profound, but the way both tannin and flavour unfurl through the back half of the wine is the real cause for excitement.
Drink by: 2040
