[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Casey's Block Shiraz 2015

The vines for the Casey’s Block Shiraz were planted in 2009 in deep alluvial soil, similar to the Alices and Mataro vineyards. It is approximately 8 acres in size, crops at around 2 tonnes per acre and is named after Annabelle’s father, whose nickname was Casey. It is situated on Peter Seppelt Road, and the cuttings for the vines were taken from five of the existing Greenock Creek Wines’ vineyards, including the Roennfeldt Road blocks. Consequently this combination of cuttings has produced a wine with unique characteristics and complex flavours. Like all the Greenock Creek wines the grapes are kept separate to produce a single estate wine. The grapes are picked on phenological ripeness and flavour, at a baume range of 14 to 16°. 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 26 months, and is usually not filtered or fined prior to bottling.



Greenock Creek

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"It has always been an education to watch new Greenock Creek vineyards manage their first few crops. No two have ever produced the same baby flavour, but their manner - their inherited routine - has much in common. The new vines seem to grow with an inbuilt battery of almost too much energy. It's obviously to get them through the few first vintages whatever the weather throws at them. Their first fruits are enthusiastic and extravagent peacock displays before they settle down exhausted to face the routine they expect to continue for what? 150 years? And Casey's? What a show-off! Provocative, bright and fresh this dandy ... it's alarmingly cheeky and vivacious. This is the banana lollies, sherbert and fruit tingles section ... ripe raspberry and redcurrant gels ... a piquant hint of the old empty pepper tin ... oak that hasn't quite settled yet, but shall ... then a texture like a fluff of marscapone or meringue and a sweet delicate simple palate that tapers off ever-so-slowly ... like a pudgy young dancer awkwardly reluctant to leave the stage ... when it does, after all that wickedly heady booze, it leaves a neat acid finish wrapped in a Medlar Shiraz gel with soft, ripe juniper berry in the middle. Peace offering."


Phillip White

  Vegan-friendly  

Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Shiraz

Size:

750mL