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  • Country ranking ?

    210
  • Producer ranking ?

    16
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Lamb

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McLaren Vale through and through! Here is the epitome of great Shiraz from our world renowned region. This is a wine that seduces. The nose is loaded with black pepper and baking spices. Liquorice and aniseed aromas are lifted by bucketloads of red and black plummy berry fruit. It's not just fruit and spice on the nose here though.

 

This is a complex wine showing fresh mushroom and forest floor characters with subtle hints of aged oak ...

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‘The Footbolt’ Shiraz 2019 – This wine offers compelling evidence as to why I would not want to be a small boutique winemaker. Unless you are able to price your wines in the upper echelon, how on earth do you compete with a wine like this? You just can’t. On the basis of value for money, unbeatable. The name comes from the decision made by Joseph Osborn, Chester’s ancestor, to sell his favourite racehorse in 2012 to buy the d’Arenberg property. The horse was named Footbolt. 

 

100% McLaren Vale Shiraz, the grapes were gently crushed into five-tonne open fermenters. Batches remain separate until the final blending. Foot treading occurs midway through fermentation. Then basket-pressing and into French barriques, both new and older, where fermentation is completed. No racking until the final blending and no fining or filtration at all. The wine then spends a year to 18 months in oak, maturing. 

 

A vibrant purple in colour, this is plush, soft and ripe. Full of flavour, it is ideal for early drinking, utterly delicious and, as mentioned great value. There are notes of chocolate, leather, dry herbs, mulberries, raspberries and aniseed. The texture is supple, the wine seamless with excellent length. Concentrated, balanced and youthful. Sure, delicious now, but it has a decade ahead if you want. A cracker. 93.

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Origin

McLaren Vale, South Australia

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