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  • Country ranking ?

    272
  • Producer ranking ?

    6
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    Lamb

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Such an easy-to-love wine. Red fruit flavours are simply leaping from this wine. Cranberries, cherries and red currants. The palate is plush and opulent, though also youthful and vibrant, with fruit softness and fine, gentle tannin. Plus, there is a hint of musk and a faint savoury undercurrent to keep things interesting. All this for $25. Top stuff.

 Toni Paterson, The Real Review 90p

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The Story

In 1972, cousins Greg and Roger Trott produced a dry red wine from grapes grown on Greg’s vineyard adjacent to the small Bethany Chapel opposite Wirra Wirra. This blend of grenache and shiraz became the first ‘Church Block’. Taking on advice from friends and mentors, Trott evolved Church Block over the years to its popular signature blend of cabernet sauvignon, shiraz and merlot. Yet still there were those who bemoaned the loss of the original blend of grenache and shiraz. So at various times over the years, when the planets have aligned, we have re-created the grenache shiraz offering and released it under the imaginatively titled ‘Original Blend’ moniker. With a look and feel harking back to simpler times, this latest release of Original Blend Grenache Shiraz is limited in number, but not imagination.

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In 1972, the original Wirra Wirra Church Block (review of 2013 here) was a blend of Grenache and Shiraz, over time becoming the blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Merlot it is today.

As a tribute to that 'original blend', Wirra Wirra now releases the Original Blend wine, a mix of Grenache and Shiraz (70/30% respectively).

Coffee-mocha, raspberry, redskins, roses and milk chocolate - inviting aromatics here.

Chocolate fudge, red berry fruit, earth and lavender. Shows moderate tannin, nicely embedded in the wine. Reasonable length, off course, all that pales when you consider how easily consumed this wine is, the ultimate accolade. 90

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McLaren Vale, South Australia
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