Greenock Creek Apricot Block

Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2021

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "Named after an old orchard that was removed and planted out to shiraz in 1995, the Apricot block, for my schnoz at least, quite often presents as one of the broodier offerings in the Greenock Creek quiver. Characters of blackberry and cherry,...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2020

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "This is bold and brooding with dark fruit richness, smoky bacon, cedar, dark chocolate and potpourri aromas on the nose, leading to a concentrated palate displaying outstanding depth and density. Beautifully framed by firm tannins, making it...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2019

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "The Apricot Block is located in the Marananga sub-region of the Barossa. Before its transformation into a vineyard, the site was an apricot orchard. Whether it is the power of suggestion or a collision with reality, one does wonder if there is...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2018

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

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 2017

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

"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 2016 1500mL-Magnum

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

"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

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

"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 2015

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

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 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 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...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2006

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2005

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Wine Advocate 95 points!The 2005 Apricot Block Shiraz received the same upbringing as the Alice’s and is a similar glass-coating, opaque purple. An enticing perfume of cedar, scorched earth, pepper, violets, bacon, and blueberry leaps from the glass. A...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2004

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Wine Advocate 95 points!"The 2004 Shiraz "Apricot Block" was aged for 28 months in older American oak. It has an expressive bouquet of cedar, tar, pepper, violets, blueberry, and licorice. Full-bodied, smoothly-textured, layered, and rich, this intense,...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2003

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

The 2003 Shiraz Apricot Block (fashioned from 11-year-old vines and also aged 28 months in American oak) offers rich aromas of creme de cassis, blackberries, asphalt, pepper, and licorice. This full-bodied, rich, intense, powerful (16.5% alcohol) cuvee...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2002

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Robert Parker 96 point!"The prodigious 2002 Shiraz Apricot Block (only 10-year-old vines) was produced from fruit cropped at 1.5 tons per acre. Its big, peppery, floral, blueberry, blackberry, pen ink, and vanillin-scented bouquet is followed by a wine...