2021 Scotchmans Hill Shiraz – Best Victorian Shiraz Royal Melbourne Wine Awards

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A vibrant and complex wine showing lifted red fruits, leading to dark plums with hints of white pepper and French oak spice. The palate is juicy, medium bodied, elegant and flowing with dark fruits, spice and fine integrated tannins. A long, balanced finish that is seamlessly rounded out with the very best French oak. This Shiraz will provide great drinking now and for many years to come.

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Description

Royal Melbourne Wine Awards

Best Victorian Shiraz

Trevor Mast Trophy for Best Shiraz of Show

Ballarat Wine Show

Best Shiraz of Show

Best Red Wine of Show

Best Wine of Show

 

Additional information

Weight 1.3 kg
Dimensions 9 × 9 × 30 cm
A vibrant and complex wine showing lifted red fruits, leading to dark plums with hints of white pepper and French oak spice. The palate is juicy, medium bodied, elegant and flowing with dark fruits, spice and fine integrated tannins. A long, balanced finish that is seamlessly rounded out with the very best French oak. This Shiraz will provide great drinking now and for many years to come.
Winemaking Region: Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria. - Clone: PT23. - Soil Type: Self mulching black vertosol derived from tertiary basalt. - Harvest Date: 31/03/21 - 07/04/21 Yield: 2.65kg/vine, 2.65tn/acre, 6.6tn/ha, 46.3hl/ha. - Winemaking: De-stemmed to small fermenters with the inclusion of 15% whole bunches and cold soaked for 5 days. Wild ferment at 28 degrees for 7 days. Pressed to barrel for a wild malolactic fermentation. Racked and bottled in July 2022. - Oak Use: Matured in new to 4 year old French barriques for 16 months. - Cellaring: Now to 2035.