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"This project now goes back two decades, to 2001. The seasonal stamp is always there, these are not formulaic wines scrubbed and rubbed into an overriding house style, for the harvest date and winemaking is focused in ensuring a balanced wine that shows the markings of the year. (As James Halliday says, a Pinot Noir winemaker's Shiraz!). The 2020 is a delicious and harmonious continuation of the style showing complex dark fruits, earth, spice and graphite. The palate is initially … more
This is the first release of Chalmers Falanghina, a vine variety this visionary grape-growing family first imported in 2015 and vinified as a Project wine in 2018. The vines grow on the Chalmers vineyard's soils of basalt, shale, sandstone, dolerite, quartz and limestone at an elevation of 210-220m.
It's an aromatic, racy wine with notes of freesia, lime and white stones and a tangy, persistent finish.
Handpicked from the Chalmers vineyard in Heathcote, home to many fascinating Italian varieties. Greco flourishes in the heat of Heathcote, with a natural ability to retain acidity but build texture and richness. It's a bold wine, with a lovely saline freshness that makes it a great wine to pair with food on a hot summer's day.
"We are becoming very enamoured with the Grenache from Col Mountain. The vibrant raspberry and red cherry aromas are super enticing and the fresh, dense, chewy palate is compelling. In some ways this Grenache is a halfway point between Bindi Pinot fragrance and charm and Pyrette's Shiraz dark and denser nature. It will benefit from 3+ years cellaring." - Michael Dhillon
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"This bright and dry Grenache Rosé comes from the central Heathcote area of Toolleen on the eastern side of the Mount Camel Range. The crushed fruit spent a few hours in the press and the slightly pink juice was settled overnight before fermenting with wild yeast in used French barrels where it remained on lees for seven months before bottling. It is bright with a pretty tinge of pink. The nose is fresh and fragrant with rose … more
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"This wine, to state the obvious, has been quite a while coming! In 2014 we began making experimental ferments using four clones from this exciting vineyard and decided to mature the blended bottled wines until we felt they were settled and singing. The wine is based on the smooth and aromatic Shiraz clones PT23 and 1654 with a little of the robust and rich Yalumba and R6WV28. The Col Mountain wines are earthier and more structured than … more
Extreme drought preceding the 2020 harvest resulted in a very small vintage of excellent Georgia's Paddock fruit, which was complemented with the addition of some purchased Heathcote "friends" grapes to produce this blend. Lifted aromas and flavours of complex, mixed ripe red and black berries with typical spiciness. If you can call a 15% alcohol wine elegant, the resulting wine has the expected magenta colour, with the normal fabulous balance between high acidity and supple tannins. Not quite as massive … more
Country: Australia
Producer: Jasper Hill
Region: Heathcote
From Mario Marson comes this outstanding short-run Heathcote Shiraz. The Jozza packs a lot of punch for just $25. Hitting all the hallmarks of Heathcote, with just enough restraint, and released with a few years on it so you can see him at his absolute best.
Packed with dense, dark fruit and handled in such a way the gives you optimal drinkability.
This is Emily & Nick's own label, named after 14th century theologian and philosopher William of Ockham’s views of "less is more" - with a stylised " < less than" symbol on the label - which is very applicable to their minimal intervention winemaking.
Having purchased fruit for eighteen years from a vineyard in the south of Heathcote, the vineyard sadly became unavailable. With grapes now sourced from a different Heathcote vineyard, one in the northern part of the Heathcote … more
Country: Australia
Producer: Jasper Hill
Region: Heathcote
Not made every year and in miniscule quantities it is a statement of style and place as much as
quality. The wine selected is a parcel that came off the back of the 1950's plantings. We refer to it as
the Red Quartz section, due to the shallow soil depth and red veined (iron stained) quartz in the soil.
The wine was hand picked, sorted and desteemed into small 1 Tonne open top pots via gravity, no
pumping. Left on … more
"After a few vintages of working with this vineyard, I decided to celebrate the harvest by holding back some wine to age longer for a Reserve. This site has had its fair share of difficulties producing sufficient volumes of fruit due to a couple of tough years. Sadly, this may well be the last time I get to work with these grapes and they will not be easy to replace. I have throughly enjoyed learning how to make Nebbiolo from … more
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Notes from Syrahmi...
Each year I source and select grapes from a different single vineyard in the Heathcote region, therefore each year the wine will have a different name to reflect the vintage.
Far and away the best value offering from Syrahmi, this is a great example of modern Heathcote at the fraction of the price of some of the greats. Excellent fruit, handled gently and framed with restrained oak. The wine is darkly purple and blue fruited, with sumptuous acidity and a fresh turned earth mineral quality to the finish.
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