100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2021
$180.00 / bottle
100 Year Old Vines Shiraz 2021: The Barossa is home to some of the world’s oldest ungrafted Shiraz vines. The vines were planted in a pre-mechanized and pre-irrigation era where site selection was everything. Dry grown as bush vines with only the best soils, vine material and sites surviving the first years, and only the absolute pinnacle surviving the 100 years thereafter.
The low-yielding ‘Centenarian’ vines, noted for their intensity of flavour, were planted more than a century ago around the time construction of the Château itself began. The select parcels are hand-picked and fermented in small open fermenters with hand plunging four times daily before careful basket pressing to gently extract tannin and colour.
AWARDS
97 Points – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
96 Points – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
96 Points – Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot
95 Points – Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
Grand Gold Medal – Berlin Wine Trophy 2024
Gold Medal – Global Syrah Masters 2024
SUITABLE FOR VEGANS AND VEGETARIANS
Reviews
97 Points
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
The wine combines power and refinement, showing blackberry, toasty oak, smoked game, warm spice and mocha characters on the nose, leading to a concentrated palate offering outstanding depth and persistency. Wonderfully composed and expressed with multi-layered mouthfeel, backed by beautifully melded tannins, finishing sumptuous and delicious. At its best: 2026 to 2041.
96 Points
Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
Incredible ancient vines are in play for this gorgeous Shiraz. Centenarian bush vines, ungrafted, the grapes are fermented in small open fermenters with hand plunging up to four times a day. Basket pressing and then a couple of years maturing in French oak.
Ther colour is near black maroon. This is plush, ripe and serious, but seriously delicious. Generous flavours that are simply saturated. The nose shows us coffee grinds, black fruits, soy, aniseed, cloves mocha and plums. Good acidity runs the full journey and the wine is balanced, focused and offers excellent intensity, with sleek tannins.
Hard to imagine anyone thinking that this is anything other than a cracking Barossa Shiraz. it simply screams of its origin. Now for fifteen to twenty years
96 Points
Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot
This is such a silky smooth and seductively expressed shiraz from this outstanding Barossa vintage. The aromas gently release a compelling combination of spices and nutmeg over dark plum and syrupy dark chocolate notes. The palate is so lush and supple, yet there is power here with the fine driving tannins and oak harnessing through to a very long finish. These old Barossa vines are something special and when you see a wine like this you understand why they are so highly prized.
Score: 96/100 Cellar: 20 years
95 Points
Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
Inky, opaque and really youthful in appearance. Powerful aromas of stewed satsuma plum, mulberry, blackberry, sweet spice, bramble and nutty oak. Chunky, dark fruited and full bore in flavour. The fruit has real power and presence, along with a decent lick of sweet oak. The tannins are firm and structured and they—along with the snappy acidity—ensure the decadent fruit doesn't wallow around. 2024–2039
Grand Gold Medal
Berlin Wine Trophy 2024
Gold Medal
Global Syrah Masters 2024
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