[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Casey's Block Shiraz 2013

"We are extremely excited to list a new wine from Greenock Creek. When the Waughs bought the chicken farm beside them, after considerable expense and effort, they have planted Shiraz on the site and named it Casey's Block. It sits beside Alice's Block, and while it tastes of its sibling's rich, spicy, Christmas cake-pedigree, it shows a structure and refinement that is all its own. For now, the Casey's is the entry-level Greenock Creek Shiraz, but as Phillip White suggests, this infant will be a force to reckon with in the future! At this price a wine like this should be bought by the dozens."
Wine House

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"This is the first wine from Casey's Block, which, after a great deal of thought, expenditure and work, eventually replaced the giant chook farm Michael and Annabelle purchased from a neighbour directly across the creek from their homestead. Casey's is beside Alices Block, on the same westward slope.

To the eye, and the nose, that sweet new vineyard sure is an improvement, and adds a great deal of proper Barossa country back into the entire priceless Seppeltsfield / Marananga / Roennfeldt's / Greenock Creek vignoble. I recall how the first crop from Seven Acre, all those years ago, sucked up whatever meagre oak Michael gave it. Casey's is obviously on different ground, but it's played the same trick, letting its oak run ahead of its fruit as it kicks off into what I know will be a very long and productive life. below lies the baby fruit, intense and glowering. but there's something freaky about it.

It's not really a baby at all. There's a certain edge of vampire or infant werewolf about it... something from a thriller movie. It stares at you from its pram with a "so whatter you lookin' at big fella? Whatter you expect?" Shameless, innocent, slightly sinister audacity. It has some leap amongst its blackberries. Juniper. And, like the Cabernet, iron.

The palate is the same, amplified and hammered into a foundry ingot. The baby suddenly turns into a rock-solid, ungiving hunk of thing: not fat or huge, but muscly, tight and ungiving. A bull terrier with a spiky collar and tiny eyes. Heavy metal.

The tannins are very fine and dusty, the acid firm and resilient, the fruit rebound mean but sinuous. While i don't recall any other recent wine from anywhere that's much like it, apart from some meanies from the hard dry country north of Greenock, I reckon this tough infant will astonish us all in a decade. Even two."
Phillip White

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Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Shiraz

Size:

750mL