2006 BAROSSA VALLEY
GRENACHE SHIRAZ MATARO

This is a very similar wine to the 2005 which sold out in weeks. It is slightly lighter in style but is satisfyingly rich, warm and complex.

The wine is a luminous, cherry red with clarity and depth. Its abundance of fruit evident on the nose is followed up on the palette. The slight sweetness of the Grenache is enfolded in the rich berry fruits of the Shiraz and lengthened and deepened by the Mataro. Like the Shiraz, the mouth fill of this wine is awesome with hints of allspice, strawberries, summer pudding and vanilla.

The wine had no new oak but hints of the older American oak casks used for maturation can be picked up in the nose and palette. This gentle oak treatment and the old Mataro (85 year old vines) give the wine a tight structure and surprising length for a GSM. It finishes clean.