100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2020 (in Gift Box)

Gracious and powerful at once, the wine shows dark fruit richness, warm spice, dried flower, toasty oak and dark chocolate characters on the nose, followed by a voluptuous palate that’s filled with complex flavours and velvety texture. It’s expansive and plush with seamlessly woven tannins, making it superbly structured and harmonious. At its best: now to 2042.

An exceptional example of old vine Barossa Shiraz sourced from a vineyard in the northern part of the region. The striking feature is the velvety smooth palate displaying the soft and supple fruit qualities in a way that conceals the power and drive. It has been made in largely traditional ways with small open fermenters and gentle basket pressing all designed to gently coax the best from these old vines. Rich textured and plush. Drink by: 2024-2044

Dry grown bush vines, more than a century in age, from the Barossa. Hand plunging four times a day and two years maturing in French oak. 5,850 bottles made.
This is an utterly entrancing Barossa Shiraz. A black maroon hue. Serious concentration here, this is generous, even sumptuous. Plush, with chocolate, leather, mocha and coffee beans. Seamless, intense and with impressive length. Fine, silky tannins, good energy and bright acidity. Love it and no doubt anyone opening a bottle over the next fifteen to twenty years will do so as well. There really is something in old vines.

Deep crimson. Blackberry, dark plum aromas with roasted chestnut, dark chocolate notes. Richly flavoured wine with ample blackberry, dark plum, mulberry fruits, fine loose-knit al dente tannins and well integrated roasted chestnut/nutmeg notes. Finishes firm and juicy with long chinotto/savoury notes. Expressive and youthful with a good future. 2024-2034

Deep ruby and purple colours in the glass. Mulberry, charred beef and rosemary aromatics. Powerful and focused with ripe blue and purple fruits that meld seamlessly with charry meat and dried herbs. It is firmly framed by dense and powerfully grainy tannins that ensure it drives very long and has tension throughout the line. Cellaring will be very well rewarded.

Shiraz sourced from two vineyards with an average age of 120 years in Nuriootpa and Vine Vale; aged for 24 months in French and American oak (20% new). Deep crimson in the glass and bursting with choc-berry fruits, dark plum and mulberry notes underscored with layers of baking spice, licorice, cedar, vanillin oak and earth. Graceful with an elegant mouthfeel, plentiful tight tannins and a minerally acid cadence on its extended finish. Drink by 2033

Sets out to impress with some serious old vine magic on show. The Centenarians contribute deeply concentrated, complex fruit. Opens in heady aromas of dark satsuma plum, black fruits, pan forte, aniseed, baking spices, earth and olive tapenade, wedded to lashings of expensive French oak. What a luxurious entrance! The style is now well set. The wine moves with confidence, building in power and presence as we have seen in previous releases. Although it is sourced from a warm vintage in 2020, tannins hold firm throughout. There is structure but also plenty of life and energy. Feeds into a style very much associated with the Barossa Valley, living large and unapologetically opulent and textural with plenty of detail. Will age a treat. Drink by: 2024-2043

The 2020 100 Year Old Vines Shiraz is concentrated and tight in the mouth. The acidity is pronounced, but the fruit is balanced and powerful, and it absorbs the acidity (and oak) beautifully. This clearly needs a decant: the fruit is coiled and compressed in the mouth, but the length of flavor certainly assures us that it has much more to give than it is currently giving. This is very good, graceful in its way. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork. 2023-2035

Roasted blueberries, dark chocolate, dried mint and charcuterie on the nose. Espresso and black peppercorns. It’s firm, full-bodied and compact, very concentrated, with firm and creamy tannins. Try after 2024.

This impressive and dexterous 2020 Barossa Shiraz boasts power and complexity in spades with rich dark chocolate, blackberry, cocoa, and asphalt aromas which are well composed. Firm, dense and long, expressive flavour is held tight by heavy-set tannins. Young and will build nicely in bottle. Drink by: 2027-2036

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