Elderton Estate Barossa Shiraz 2020 (Australia)

Elderton Estate Barossa Shiraz 2020 (Australia)American & French oak Black forest fruit Spiced plum & clove Chalky tannins "Rich blueberry and gingerbread aromas with plenty of spice that is well suited. The palate is smooth, fleshy and attractively open knit with enough tannin to carry the finish long" Nick Stock, Jamessuckling. com, Aug 2022 "2020 presented a challenging year with minute yields, smaller than average berry size and intense flavour in our Estate Shiraz. Careful cap management

• American & French oak
• Black forest fruit
• Spiced plum & clove
• Chalky tannins

"Rich blueberry and gingerbread aromas with plenty of spice that is well suited. The palate is smooth, fleshy and attractively open-knit with enough tannin to carry the finish long" Nick Stock, Jamessuckling.com, Aug 2022

"2020 presented a challenging year with minute yields, smaller than average berry size and intense flavour in our Estate Shiraz. Careful cap management ensured gentle extraction from the skins and seeds whilst avoiding harsh bitter tannins. We love the way these three vineyard sites work together in the Estate Shiraz to create a wine with structure, fruit and finally freshness owing to the Eden Valley component. Post fermentation our single batches were put to a combination of new and used French and American oak for malolactic fermentation and maturation before blending" Jules Ashmead & Brock Harrison, Winemakers

Full bodied, classic and serious. A vibrant dark purple. Black forest fruits and a hint of spiced plums. Rich red fruits and plummy depth with a touch of spicy cloves leading in to a seamless length on the palate with chalky tannins matched with juicy red fruit sweetness. Drink now or cellar confidently for up to 10 years from vintage.

Our Barossa Shiraz comes from many parcels across our three vineyard sites. These vineyards ripen differently owing to their different aspects, elevation and soil types. Our Greenock vineyard is on the western end of the Barossa, first to ripen for us and always brings a vibrant bouquet and punchy tannin to our blend. Our Nuriootpa plantings bring a depth of tannin and a lovely sweet spiced fruit element and our Craneford vineyard is a more elevated site on leaner soils ripening later in the season.

The fruit for this Shiraz was traditionally sourced from the Elderton vineyard situated on the banks of the North Para River, Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, South Australia. Today, this wine includes fruit from the three exceptional estate vineyards that the Ashmead family own.

Elderton was transformed from a vineyard supplying quality fruit to other wineries to a winery in its own right in 1982, and have since won much recognition for all of the wines, especially the Shiraz. Barossa Shiraz is now highly collectable worldwide, and the Elderton is always a benchmark for the region.