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Tasting Notes
Region Selection Shiraz 2000
Cost & availability - $35, limited availability
Awards - 3 Gold, 2 Silver, 2 Bronze
Tasting Notes - at 7 years of BM
Analysis - Alc -13.0%, TA - 5.5 g/l, pH - 3.55
Wine Style - The Hunter, as a region is renowned for producing medium bodied savoury reds. Stylistically the fruit profile of Hunter wines are more reminiscent of old world wine producing areas with an iconic earthy leather note that has grown to become the finger print of a region that has produced award winning red table wines for the past 180 years.
The fruit was sourced from selected parcels of old vine Shiraz from our Hunter Vineyards. Holding firm to the regional style, this wine received only eight months of oak maturation in older barrels leaving the fruit profile relatively unadorned of any overt oak influence.
The classic Hunter Wine style demands bottle maturation and accordingly our 2000 vintage was released from cellaring, five years after its bottling date of January 17, 2006.
Bouquet - Ripe plum, leather and some liquorice, accompanied with the more savoury developmental tobacco characters of bottle age.
Palate - Hunter wines are all about structure and balance! The palate weight of a Hunter Shiraz, is more akin to a Margaret River wine, medium bodied in comparison to the wines of South Australian or Northern Victorian.
Fine-grained fruit tannins and generally lower alcohol levels combine to create elegant wines better suited for dining and enhanced by their ability to age gracefully.
This wine tends to show more of the pronounced spiciness of Shiraz’s fruit spectrum in the mouth than on the nose and is picking up some of the fruitcake-like flavours associated with aged wines.
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