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JAMES HALLIDAYHALLIDAY WINE COMPANION 2018 "The wine paying tribute to the wide skillset of the Silesian Lutheran settlement of the Barossa Valley. Mataro seldom makes a wine as supple as this, and i dont think this can be ascribed to the 4% grenache inclusion. There's a special quality to the tannins that counterintuitively lifts the aura of the red fruits on the palate. The balance is such that a 20+ life is assured."
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The Story
The Bootmaker mataro pays tribute to the bounteous skillset of the Silesian Lutheran pioneering settlement of the Barossa. After plying his trade and building the Bootmaker’s Cottage in the hills east of the Barossa Valley, the subsequent generations of Carl Pfeiffer’s bootmaking family resettled on the deep sands of the river flats of the North Para, farming an eclectic array of grape varieties and stone fruits. Well suited to warm and dry co...
Wine Information
A traditionally wet winter, mild spring and excellent fruit set provided a great start to the 2015 vintage after four vintages with below average yields. Spring was dry and led into a very mild, dry summer with no disease, resulting in fruit with higher natural acidity, and incredible flavour and colour concentration. It was a dry, warm and windy start to January, with some welcome rain at the end of the month coinciding with the onset of vera...