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Wine Description
The Story
Noon Eclipse is a generous, full bodied wine produced predominately from Grenache (80%+), with smaller components of Shiraz and Graciano, all from our McLaren Vale estate vineyards. Prior to the 2011 vintage, Eclipse was made from estate Grenache (approx 65%) with Langhorne Creek Shiraz (approx 35%).
Noon Eclipse can be enjoyed as a young wine or cellared and consumed as a more complex and gentle older wine at around 10 years plus. We find ...
Wine Information
The season began well, with good opening rains in late April. The rain petered out a bit in May and June, before returning with very good falls in July to give us optimism for the beginning of the growing season… A warm August led to an early bud-break and the weather continued warmer than average through September despite a sudden return to cool and wintry conditions for a week at the end of the month.
October was lacking a little rai...