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Wine Description
The Story
‘Eric Stevens Purbrick’ Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon / Selected from the most outstanding casks produced by the Estate from a particular vintage, each is made utilising Tahbilk’s traditional red winemaking approach.
Fermentation takes place in 100 year old plus open oak vats followed by maturation in small French and American oak prior to bottling and then further cellaring before release. These quite remarkable wines fittingly carry the na...
Wine Information
The first overland route from Melbourne (Port Phillip) to Sydney (Port Jackson) from 1836 to 1843, passed through the land now known as Tahbilk (Melbourne itself was first settled in 1835).
In 1860 (ironically the same year that Phylloxera was first observed in France) Melbourne businessmen, including John Pinney Bear (whose family later took control of the Estate), formed a company to create a vineyard on the Goulburn River, with the grand...
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...