[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Alices Shiraz 2015

The Alices is our largest vineyard, being 15 acres, and is named after Annabelle’s mother and Michael’s favourite aunty, both of whom were named Alice. The vineyard is on our Radford Road property and the vines were planted in 1997, and like all the other wines, the grapes are kept separate to produce a single estate wine. The vines crop at 1.5 to 2.0 tonnes per acre and as with all our vineyards the grapes are picked and kept separate to produce a single estate wine. They are picked on phenological ripeness and flavour at a baume range of 14 to 16º. This baume sometimes produces a naturally occurring high alcohol, although this will depend on seasonal conditions.


The grapes are fermented in large, shallow open masonry fermenters, pumped over, chilled and pressed through a basket press. It is then racked into barrels to undergo natural MLF, keeping the free run and pressings separate to be blended back together prior to bottling. The wine is pumped into seasoned American hogsheads with a small percentage going into new oak barrels. It is then left to mature for approximately 27 months, and is usually not filtered or fined prior to bottling. A wine of great flavour and depth with an abundance of fruit, currants, raspberry and juniper, wrapped in a mild oaky finish.



Greenock Creek

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"Wow. Licorice rings and mudstone. Framboise and crème de cassis. Country dust and sun on the stubble. This Alices is a sunday school trifle some wicked backsliding aunt has smuggled her personal blend of sherry and cherry brandy into. Then extra nutmeg too I reckon, to hide the whiff of alcohol. Fail. I seem to recall that she once raided the party with the same trick at the Apricot Block. I can smell Nanna Sarah's doughy scones here, with her amazing raspberry and fig jam. They're beside the trademark panforte with its nuts and dates and figs and marshmallow sugar dusting. After awhile you can feel half the congregation would really rather be dancing in that old hall rather than eating dessert at a dry show for somebody's anthracite wedding anniversary. So they get the old slap bass happening and a squeezebox and start bouncin each other off the walls my goodness all those rope petticoats. Flagons of old muscat out the back. Oh yes, it smells like chocolate crème caramel, too; maybe more crème brulèe."


Phillip White

  Vegan-friendly  

Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Shiraz

Size:

750mL