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  • Country ranking ?

    355
  • Producer ranking ?

    9
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Beef Eye Fillet and Roasted Vegetables

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Matthew Jukes - Daily Mail UK Weekend Magazine Top 100 Best Value Summer Reds and Rose Wines | Metal Label The Black Shiraz 2016: "This is an imposing and massively impressive wine. It looks good and tastes divine without troubling the wallet too much. Value is one of the main tenets at Bob’s winery and he never lets his fans down. If you love big reds, you’ll love this."

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The Story

The Berton Vineyard Metal Range takes stand alone varietals to make something exceptional. Australian Shiraz has forged an enviable reputation for huge unrestrained flavours that are exemplified by this wine. 

The Black Shiraz is a bold example of Australian Shiraz with deep colour and aromas of blackberry and plum over toasty vanillin and spicy oak. The palate is full flavoured and intense with rich plum, blueberry and mocha notes. The tan...

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Vintage 2017

AUSTRALIA VINTAGE REPORT: The 2017 winegrape crush is estimated to be 1.93 million tonnes, based on responses received by the Wine Sector Survey 2017. This crush is 5 per cent higher than the 2016 final crush figure of 1.84 million tonnes (Department of Agriculture and Water Resources – Levies recorded figure). It is the third consecutive vintage where the tonnes crushed have increased.

Additional tonnes this year came relatively equally fr...

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Yenda, Riverina

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2016 Metal Label The Black Shiraz - Bronze Medal Decanter World Wine Awards 2017 | Silver Medal International Wine Challenge (IWC) | Gold Medal China Wine & Spirit Awards 2017 | Gold Medal International Wine Contest Bucharest (IWCB) 2017 | Silver Medal The Great Australian Shiraz Challenge 2017 | Bronze Medal Cairns Wine Show 2017 | Bronze Medal San Francisco International Wine Competition 2017 | Bronze Medal Riverina Open Wine Show 2017 | Gold Medal New World Wine Awards (NZ) 2017 | Silver Medal IWSC 2017 | Silver Medal Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2017 | Bronze Medal Asian Syrah Masters 2017 | Bronze Medal Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition 2017.

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