The Story
This is an utterly gorgeous wine that seduces and bombards the senses; suggesting a deep emotional connection between winemaker and vineyard landscape. The "unusually thick skinned" shiraz is sourced from Chris Ringland's dry grown vineyard - planted originally in 1910 on shallow skeletal granitic sandy loams over underlying clay on the edge of the Barossa Valley – but technically in Eden Valley. The wines are ‘painstakingly hand made’ in open...
Vintage 2002
Australia 2002 was a cold year with plenty of winter and spring rain to support the vines for the year. Summer and fall were completely dry. The summer was the coldest on record. Fall had one of the warmest endings. All of this meant that we had very low yields of grapes and produced high quality wines. The grapes had a very good scent (nose and taste, more floral than usual), good concentration and good acidity. A great year for whites and ma...
