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Heath Wines LIZARD FLAT Shiraz South Australia |
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Where it's from:
Australia, South Australia
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£86.83
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12 x 75 cl |
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Powerful Reds |
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This deep red wine with attractive crimson hues has complex aromas of dark cherries and coffee / chocolate with a hint of spice combining very nicely. The palate is medium to full-bodied with full flavours of berry fruits and dark chocolate, supported by subtle oak and grainy but soft tannins with a nice clean finish. Founder and former racing car driver turned wine producer, Alan Heath, purchased from his retiring next door neighbour a 100 year old dairy farm in the premium wine growing region the 'Adelaide Hills' in South Australia. Paying great attention to soil type, climate, row sizes, ripping, water quality, varieties and cloning attracted the immediate attention of Penfolds who contracted the fruit from his premium vineyard for a number of years. The purchase of the Vineyard was the start of a journey that culminated with the formation of Heath Wines in 1998. Alan's days as a grower taught him some valuable lessons. Sourcing of fruit is driven by the 'best sub-region for each varietal' and the 'best vineyard for each sub-region.' As a result of this Alans philosophy is simple 'We are committed to and focus on producing handcrafted wines with fruit driven varietal flavours, structure and balance.' (12 x 75 cl)
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Australia, South Australia |
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Heath Wines |
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Heath Wines LIZARD FLAT Chardonnay South Australia
Description: A fine wine with a focus on the fruit this is a light gold coloured 100% Chardonnay. Displaying tropical fruit aromas it is full bodied with a creamy character and length on the finish. Founder and former racing car driver turned wine producer, Alan Heath, purchased from his retiring next door neighbour a 100 year old dairy farm in the premium wine growing region the 'Adelaide Hills' in South Australia. Paying great attention to soil type, climate, row sizes, ripping, water quality, varieties and cloning attracted the immediate attention of Penfolds who contracted the fruit from his premium vineyard for a number of years. The purchase of the Vineyard was the start of a journey that culminated with the formation of Heath Wines in 1998. Alan's days as a grower taught him some valuable lessons. Sourcing of fruit is driven by the 'best sub-region for each varietal' and the 'best vineyard for each sub-region.' As a result of this Alans philosophy is simple 'We are committed to and focus on producing handcrafted wines with fruit driven varietal flavours, structure and balance.' (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £86.83
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Penfolds THOMAS HYLAND Shiraz South Australia
Description: Penfolds THOMAS HYLAND Shiraz South Australia from Australia, South Australia by Penfolds Powerful Reds
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Kingston Estate ESTATE Shiraz South Australia
Description: Jam and plum flavours dominate with just a hint of black pepper spice.The result is a wine displaying an amazing deep crimson colour,a wonderful bouquet and a ric h but smooth complexity of integrated flavours. The palate is underpinned by the enhancement of maturation in French and American oak.The finish is clean with firm tannins. Shiraz epitomises Australian red wine.It is a variety which can grow successfully in many regions providing warm,ric h and spicy flavours. This vintage was predominantly sourced from South Australia 's Riverland and Langhorne Creek regions. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £81.42
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Wolf Blass PRESIDENTS SELECTION Shiraz South Australia
Description: The Wolf Blass Presidents Selection SA Shiraz is a dark red in colour with purple hues. Intense aromas of spiced fruit, chocolate oak characters with a hint of varietal pepper. These characters are again evident on the rich and full-bodied palate with sweet fruit and excellent structure. The finish is long and lingering with an added texture from fine-grained tannins. Cellaring: Enjoy over the next 10 years Viticulture: The fruit was sourced from some of the oldest, low yielding shiraz vineyards in South Australia. The Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and Langhorne Creek are renowned for their quality and suitability to this variety. Winemaking: After crushing and de-stemming, fermentation was commenced in traditional open top fermenters before being transferred to new and seasoned American and French oak hogsheads to complete fermentation. The wine then remained in this oak for a further 16 months maturation. The Wolf Blass Presidents Selection Shiraz has been made in the traditional classic shiraz mould to ensure the wine is rich, soft and approachable in its youth. Wolf Blass is one of Australia's most awarded premium wine makers, amassing more than 3,000 medals and trophies at national and international wine shows since 1966. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £78.68
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Wolf Blass GREY LABEL Shiraz South Australia
Description: The Grey Label Barossa/Clare/McLaren Vale Shiraz is rich deep crimson in the glass. Aromas of rich berry are given complexity by hints of pepper, spice and dark chocolate. The palate displays well-integrated fruit with soft tannins, a subtle touch of oak and a long, seamless finish. VITICULTURE The fruit for this wine was sourced from premium Shiraz vineyards in South Australia. Constant contact with Barossa, Clare Valley and McLaren Vale growers ensured that the fruit was carefully maintained to produce rich fruit bursting with flavour and varietal character. The range of vineyards and regions provided our winemaking team with many blending options. The Clare Valley fruit was rich and elegant with a tight minerally fragrance, the Barossa fruit added depth and richness to the palate and the McLaren Vale fruit was bursting with ripe, rich berry characters. The different regional fruit attributes complemented each other to produce a wine of great complexity. WINEMAKING Following crushing the wine was left to ferment on the skins for between five to seven days, allowing for the optimum release of colour and flavour. This technique maximised the intensity of fruit flavour without extracting excessive tannins to ensure that this wine is approachable in its youth, a hallmark of Wolf Blass wines. Individual parcels completed fermentation in new American and French oak. After racking the wine was returned to the original American and French oak barrels for 18 months maturation. After maturation our winemaking team carefully assessed each parcel before blending and bottling. CELLARING This wine displays rich fruit flavours in its youth and has been carefully blended to ensure soft tannins and drinkability. It will develop more aged characters over the next 10 years if carefully cellared. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £130.88
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Yalumba OXFORD LANDING Cabernet Shiraz South Australia
Description: The Oxford Landing range is a collection of Yalumba wines with big honest flavours that are enthusiastically sought around the world. Drink them in good health and toast this slice of South Australia where the soil is rich, the air is clean and the sky is nearly always blue (24 x 37.5 cl)
Price: £81.70
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Orlando JACOBS CREEK Grenache Shiraz South Australia
Description: The history of Jacob's Creek begins with the settlement of South Australia. Colonel William Light who surveyed the city of Adelaide in 1836 made his way north west in 1837 to the Barossa Valley, which he named after a famous English naval victory at Barossa in the south of Spain. When William Jacob first surveyed the Barossa Region in 1839, he and his brother John took up land in the Hundred of Moorooroo. Moorooroo is derived from an aboriginal word meaning 'meeting of two waters'. The two waters involved were the North Para River and creek, which fed into it. The creek was later renamed Jacob's Creek after William Jacob, while the Jacob brothers' small cottages still stand, overlooking Jacob's Creek. Today, more than 80% of Jacob's Creek is now enjoyed in over 60 countries around the world (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £46.95
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Wynns Coonawarra Estate Shiraz South Australia
Description: The Wynns Shiraz offers exceptional quality and value. Dominated by the classic, black pepper and mulberry characteristics typical of Coonawarra Shiraz, it has all the complexity and structure to develop further depth in the medium term. Matured in new and used, small American and French barrels for 10 months. Deep, dark red with purple hues. Ripe, spicy, with dark berry and black pepper aromas to the fore. Smooth and well-balanced with light cedary oak and sweet fruit. Fine-grained tannins underpin the wine and add to its great length of flavour. While excellent drinking now, the Wynns Coonawarra Estate Shiraz will evolve with careful cellaring over the next three to five years. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £48.63
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Wynns Coonawarra Estate MICHAEL Shiraz South Australia
Description: As with John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon, Michael Shiraz is only produced in exceptional vintages using only the top one per cent of available Coonawarra Shiraz. Earning a reputation as the benchmark Coonawarra Shiraz, Michael is fermented and then matured in New American Oak for up to 18 months. It is deep red in colour with strong mulberry, peppery Shiraz berry aromas enriched with coffee bean American oak character in the nose. The palate is rich and full bodied with sweet ripe fruit contained within a firm, superbly balanced tannin structure that will grow in complexity with 10 to 15 years of bottle age. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £183.48
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Elderton Barossa Shiraz South Australia
Description: Amazingly intense dark magenta colour, with a lifted bouquet of violets, vanilla and white pepper, with spicy overtones nose. Intense with rich sweet fruit, yet still very soft. Plum, chocolate and spice integrate well on the palate with a soft vanilla finish. Nice oak showing in this well balanced wine. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £185.79
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Step Road FIRST STEP Shiraz South Australia
Description: Colour: Vibrant cherry red Nose: Spicy white pepper and berry fruit, butter, chocolate and earth. Taste: Soft and spicy with berry and vanilla. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £84.67
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Peter Lehmann WILDCARD Shiraz South Australia
Description: From Fruit source and selected in South Australian Riverland and Barossa Vineyards this shiraz has a bright deep red colour with a purple rim. The bouquet has a lovely plum fruit with leafy notes while the palate has a beautifully soft, fruit driven style showing typical shiraz richness reined in by the soft tannin finish. The Peter Lehmann winemakers have identified Shiraz vineyards which will give grapes of the quality they seek. Working closely with selected growers, yields are monitored and harvest only occurs when the grapes are at optimum maturity. A deliciously soft style of shiraz: a red wine to be enjoyed in its fresh youthfulness. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £70.68
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Penfolds BIN 389 Cabernet Shiraz South Australia
Description: Created out of Max Schubert's experimentation during the 1950's and 1960's, the first vintage of Bin 389 was in 1960. Combining the elegance of Cabernet Sauvignon and the richness of Shiraz, the wine is matured for 14 months in American Barrels, some of which had been used for the previous vintage of the 'Grange'. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £122.18
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Yalumba OXFORD LANDING Shiraz South Australia
Description: The Oxford Landing Shiraz is a medium bodied wine that shows an intense crimson red colour with bright purple hue. The aroma is of red cherries and cloves with a subtle oak influence. Flavours of ripe red berry fruits and stewed plums on the palate are complexed by mocha chocolate characters and a mid palate sweetness. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £80.52
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