Greenock Creek Apricot Block

Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2018

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

93 POINTS - WINEPILOT!    "There’s been a fair bit of mystique surrounding this Marananga district single vineyard wine, the vines planted on an old apricot orchard and the resulting shiraz said to display stone fruit characters derived...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2016

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

"I can’t believe how beneath this thick violet cloak of dense, deep Shiraz, this feeling of apricot rises through the recent red alluvium where the old apricot orchard grew. Is it sometimes like grilled apricot kernels, sometimes like the odd...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2016 1500mL-Magnum

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

"I can’t believe how beneath this thick violet cloak of dense, deep Shiraz, this feeling of apricot rises through the recent red alluvium where the old apricot orchard grew. Is it sometimes like grilled apricot kernels, sometimes like the odd...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2017

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

"This block was planted on the site of an old apricot orchard and this provides a stone fruit element to the wine. The palate is rich and silky with morello cherries and ripe raspberries melding with hints of sweet nutmeg spice. Dark, bitter chocolate...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2014

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Since I opened this bottle a week ago, it's been like taking a Ghost Train ride through the old East End Fruit and Vegetable Markets, trying to guess by their aroma whose stalls you're passing in the dark, and what wonders their barrows held as you...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2015

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

This vineyard was planted in 1995 on an old apricot orchard which we removed from our Roennfeldt Road property at Marananga near Greenock. The vines crop at 1.2 to 1.5 tonnes per acres from the short rows, and 1.5 to 2.0 tonnes per acre on the long rows...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2013

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2012

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Philip White 94+++ Points! "As the years wind by, the Apricot Block seems more and more determined to offer a very feminine counterpoint to the stoic and tough indifference that underlies the initial chub of Alice's. In 2012 that contrast is even...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2011

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Philip White 94+++ points! "Apricot Block straddles the boundary where very recent alluviums (about 10,000 years) have washed down to cover the foot of the fractured 750+ million year old Upper Burra Group's schists, metasiltstones and quartzites.....

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2010

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2009

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2008

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Phillip White 95+++ Points!"Drought seems to have smitten the Apricot Block with quite a lot of Roennfeldt's character this year, which is not all that surprising, given the vineyards are adjacent, albeit with very different geological terroir. Maybe in...