About the winery
The grapes for this wine are picked from our Seven Acre vineyard which was planted in 1990. It is situated on the Radford Road property at Seppeltsfield just south of Greenock, and as the name proposes is pretty nearly 7 acre of land in size. The vines crop at 1.5 to 2.0 tons every acre and are kept separate to create a solitary domain wine. Similarly as with every one of our grapes they are singled out phenological readiness and flavour at a baume range of 14 to 16º. This baume once in a while delivers a commonly happening high liquor, despite the fact that this will rely on occasional conditions.
The grapes are aged in expansive, shallow open masonary fermenters, pumped over, chilled and squeezed through a basket press. It is then racked into barrels to experience common MLF, keeping the free run and pressings separate to be mixed back together before packaging. The wine is pumped into seasoned American hogsheads with a little rate going into new oak barrels. It is then left to develop for approximately 27 months, and is generally not separated or fined before packaging.
Winery Details
Greenock Creek Wines
54 Radford Road
Seppeltsfield, SA, 5355, Australia
Phone: (08) 8562 8103
Website: http://www.greenockcreekwines.com.au/
About the Wine
Profound garnet-purple in color, the 2011 Seven Acre Shiraz seems to have a considerable measure of cedar notes on the nose veiling stifled and subtle red and black berry fruit indicates out of sight. The sense of taste is likewise commanded by oak while the fruit is lean and austere. It completes with astringency and hardness. Exceptionally strange for this wine, disillusioning result is an outcome of the extremely troublesome 2011 vintage in the Barossa.
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