Heirloom Vineyards Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022 x 12

Name: Heirloom Vineyards Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022 x 12
Brand: S.Smith
SKU: NEG136
Price: 318.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

Heirloom-Vineyards

$318.00 AUD

Plush and ripe plummy fruits with hints of blueberry pie

91 Points

A good-smelling wine, this one. Plush and ripe plummy fruits with hints of blueberry pie, licorice, purple floral tones, dark chocolate, bay leaf and earth. Some blackberry comes through on the palate with creamy, chocolatey oak, silty tannins and a velvety flow of fruit as the wine fades away.

2025 Halliday Wine Companion, 07 Aug 2024

2022 BAROSSA SHIRAZ
Heirloom Vineyards was conceived in vintage 2000, when a young winemaking
student caught the eye of a silly old wine judge. A love story ensued inspired
by two vows: To preserve the best of tradition, the old world of wine and
our unique old vineyards and to champion the best clones of each variety
planted in the most appropriate sites embracing the principals of organic
and biodynamic farming. Seven long vintages of trial and error passed before
Heirloom Vineyards could make a wine that was fine enough to pass on to
future generations. That is this wine.
This Heirloom Vineyards Shiraz was produced from our best Barossa hand
tended vineyards. Matured for 18 months in both American and French oak,
this Shiraz can be enjoyed now yet will reward cellaring and decanting.
OUR WINE NOTES
Shiraz can be a simple sip or a symphony of the senses, a moment of
pleasure or an eternity of contemplation. Only the poet can know, so stop
thinking and surrender.
COLOUR
Strikingly black-red and violet.
AROMA
Grated dark chocolate and a dusting of cocoa; Christmas Cake or rather pudding.
Red and dark berries at the late Summer end of the spectrum. It is the interplay
between the dark fruit perfume (blackberries, blueberries and mulberries) and
the heightened aromatics of plum, prune and fresh herbs that make the wine so
enticing.
PALATE
A persistent line of spice and an enduring acid tension. Super concentrated dark
berry fruit flavours roll in tightly coiled spoils of rushing taste and texture. Green
herbs and forest floor in the background, then it rolls and rolls again before yet
another wave of fruit flavour. It seems both at once a rounded and warm red wine,
but then a taut and clean one.
OVERALL
Danger: too drinkable… Make sure you have at least two or three people at the
luncheon table. Well suited to barbeque, or try rabbit stewed in a slightly richer
style, perhaps finished with a teaspoon of dark chocolate in the sauce.
Alcohol 14.5% (8.6 Standard Drinks)
WINEMAKERS Elena Brooks & Alexandra Haselich