Rutherford Wine Company ROUND HILL Zinfandel Shiraz California
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De Waal Estate Shiraz Stellenbosch RSA
Description: TASTING NOTES A concentrated rich and full wine with flavours of spices, creamy dark fruit and a smoky undertone. The 1999 Shiraz was the Maiden vintage for Uiterwyk Wine Estate, and is the only Shiraz in South Africa made in true Northern Rhône tradition where 5% Viognier is added to develop a softer more fragrant style. IN THE VINEYARD The DeWaal Shiraz is produced from a 25-year-old vineyard grown on gravel and loam soil. This single vineyard only produced 200 cases. IN THE CELLAR The wine received 14 days maceration for optimum extract of flavours and colours from the skins. Maturation for 18 months in 40% new French barriques. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £123.74
Evans Wine Company WHISTLING DUCK Shiraz Cabernet South East Australia
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Two Hands SOPHIE'S GARDEN Shiraz Padthaway South Australia
Description: The 'two hands' are Michael Twelftree and Richard Mintz who formed the company in 1999 with the clear objective of making the best possible Shiraz based wines from prized Shiraz producing regions within Australia. Michael Twelftree, initially from a construction background, spent a number of years exporting Australian Wine to the USA and Asia. Richard Mintz a chartered accountant, was formerly C.E.O. of one of Australia's leading Cooperage's in the Barossa Valley, South Australia. With Twelftree's contacts and wine savvy approach and Mintz's management skills and business acumen, the two old friends decided to make some wine together. In 2000 they started with just 17 tonnes of fruit from the McLaren Vale and Padthaway wine regions. From the beginning the wines were very well received at home and abroad with a healthy stream of reviews culminating in 2004 with Robert M. Parker pronouncing Two Hands as 'the finest negociant operation south of the equator'. Sourced from a vineyard located in the south west of Padthaway. What's interesting about this vineyard is that there are two distinctly different soil types, on one hand you have deep black sand on the other red clay over limestone . Each producing a different style of Shiraz which blend harmoniously together after being matured for 16 months in predominantly French oak, 20% of which was new. This is an excellent example of what this region is about and confirms our faith in Padthaway as a premium Australian Shiraz producing region. Almost black at the core with a purple rim. A little shy to begin but once opened up shows Asian spice and scented dark black fruits. A powerful full bodied palate with fine grained mouth coating tannins; concentrated upfront fruit that continues right across the palate. Although a big wine it shows focus; the fruit concentration carries the alcohol to offer a finely balanced wine of power and intensity. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £303.37
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Two Hands SOPHIE'S GARDEN Shiraz Padthaway South Australia
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Jackson Wine Estates YANGARRA ESTATE Shiraz McLaren Vale South Australia
Description: Yangarra means 'From the earth' in an aboriginal dialect, and it is this philosophy that Yangarra Estate, part of Jackson Wine Estates, try and reflect in their wines — minimum human intervention in viticulture and winemaking to produce special wines that reflect their terroir. 100% McLaren Vale estate grown fruit, once in the winery this wine spent 18 months in 33% new, 33% one year old, 33% two years old French oak barriques. 'Old shiraz vines create this complex and opulent wine, with flavours of white, black and green peppercorns, mulberry and boysenberry, with notes of peaty-earthiness along with spices and herbs of thyme and sage.' Peter Fraiser, Winemaker (12 x 75 cl) Price: £183.68
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Jackson Wine Estates YANGARRA ESTATE Shiraz McLaren Vale South Australia
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Errazuriz LA CUMBRE Shiraz Aconcagua Valley Chile
Description: Errazuriz were the first to plant and produce Shiraz in Chile. This, their flagship Shiraz, is a wine produced from the very best fruit across the Errazuriz vineyards each vintage. The ultimate Shiraz (6 x 75 cl) Price: £152.98
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Errazuriz LA CUMBRE Shiraz Aconcagua Valley Chile
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Evans Wine Company BULLETIN PLACE Shiraz South East Australia
Description: An up-front, easy drinking wine for current consumption. A very dense colour leads to a nose with pleasant oak characters resting on ripe plum fruit flavours, with a touch of chocolate and coconut. The palate is rich and ripe, with fine tannins and a powerful finish. Will improve over the next two or three years, but presently a soft, seductive Shiraz style with lots of current drinking appeal. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £99.97
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Evans Wine Company BULLETIN PLACE Shiraz South East Australia
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Seppelts ORIGINAL SPARKLING SHIRAZ South Australia
Description: Seppelt Original Sparkling Shiraz is Australia's most famous and long lived sparkling shiraz and displays a rich and unique style in the grand tradition of The House of Seppelt. An indulgent sparkling wine displaying the red wine characteristics of ripe shiraz underlaid with pepper and red berry fruit. The legend began in the 1890's and the experience, combined with careful fruit selection delivers a memorable sparkling wine. Festive pinky-purple froth, bitter-sweet damson fruit with a dry finish. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £107.88
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Seppelts ORIGINAL SPARKLING SHIRAZ South Australia
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Torbreck THE FACTOR Shiraz Barossa Valley
Description: This wine is composed of 100% Shiraz and was first produced from the 1998 vintage. In the early 1980s valuable Australian Shiraz vineyards were pulled out because of lack of market interest. The movement to cool climate viticulture and wine made the Barossa, of all places, look rather irrelevant. However this trend reversed dramatically with the internationalization of the Australian wine market and renewed enthusiasm of local buyers. This is our tribute to those surviving vines and is made in the traditional Barossa manner , rich and rewarding upon release and beautifully ethereal with age. Varietal : 100 percent Shiraz Regions : Marananga, Koonunga Hill, Moppa, Gomersal (6 x 75 cl) Price: £338.30
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Dean Hewitson NED & HENRY Shiraz Barossa Valley
Description: The colour of Ned & Henry's Shiraz is deep red with a purple hue. The aroma is distinctively Barossa Valley Shiraz: black and red, ripe fruits with a solid, concentrated core. Matured in only French oak, the fruit is interwoven with pepper, nutmeg and clove. The seamless class of perfectly ripe Shiraz and French oak is a stand-out here. The palate structure of Ned & Henry's delivers in every aspect of the brief. The fruit flavours of Shiraz are full and concentrated yet soft and supple. The tannins are gentle yet persistent and completely mould into the wine. Ned & Henry's Shiraz is most definitely full-bodied: chocolate, blackberry and dark-earth characters. Yet the wine has great balance and poise and carries that signature called 'drinkability'. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £159.47
