[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Alices Shiraz 2016

"Anise. Carraway. Cumin. Somehow this vintage, Alices smells like the grinding of curry spices. Yep, there’s your actual curry tree, Murraya koenigii, too. It’s a piquant, gently acrid smell. Makes me dribble. Below that? Blackberry, blackcurrant, mulberry. Prune. The juiciest, blackest goodies. Maybe with a twist of rind from the Seville orange. A slice of dried apple. Can’t be the same variety as the Casey’s from next door? Sure is. But this is on the Greenock version of the slatey siltstone of the Yudnamutana sub-group, nearly 750 million years old. Casey’s is on a recent profile of soil, not geology, carefully rebuilt by Michael once he bought that adjacent joint and took out the giant chooksheds with all those hundreds of tonnes of old concrete. To plant more Shiraz. So much work. Work smartly, intelligently, determinedly planned and conducted. Work.

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Another strong drink of unlikely elegance and finesse, this one’s perhaps the most slender and racy. The most lithe. It has not one flake of coarse tannin but plenty of shiny, taut acidity. This is the lamb korma wine. It has been like going to the movies, watching Alices evolve and unfold since Michael planted it to be his big-yielding ‘commercial’ block. I never saw it yield big, mind you: he was very soon pruning it back as hard as the rest. And now it gives me curry. Amazing."

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Philip White

 

  Vegan-friendly  

Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Shiraz

Size:

750mL