Curator Greenock Vineyard 2021 Shiraz
This Greenock Shiraz is sourced from a small 80 year old single vineyard in the Hamlet of Greenock in the Western Ridge of the Barossa Valley. Gnarly old vines, that produce fruit of deep flavour and intensity, very much an old school Barossa vineyard. 10% whole bunches with the rest whole berries, fermented naturally for 12 days then basket pressed to only French oak (30% new). It remained in this same oak for 18 months before blending and settling prior to bottling.
Bottled unfined and unfiltered and is Vegan friendly.
95 Points - Halliday Wine Companion 2024 Single-vineyard Greenock shiraz; 90/10% whole berries/whole bunches, wild ferment, 18 months' maturation in French oak. Inviting aromas of satsuma plum and liqueur cherry fruits cut with hints of baking spices, amaro herbs, violets, olive tapenade, dark chocolate, pastis and roasting meats. Full bodied with a gorgeous fruit density and flow, tightly packed powdery tannin etched with ironstone and graphite and a long, sustained finish.
95 Points - Winepilot Jeni Port Fits the definition of Barossa warmth and sweet-fruited abundance, so much so, the urge is to drink now and not wait. Fruit is on the darker end of the spectrum: blackberry, bramble, liquorice amid the most enticing exotic spice mix of nutmeg, rosemary and crushed fennel seed. Joined by vanillin oak on the palate, there is breadth and warmth, the essence of Barossa Shiraz familiarity and comfort, enlivened by clean, precise and well-integrated tannins. Do you drink now or wait? That’s the question. There’s always potential to do both, if your bank account allows.
94 Points - WBM Mike Bennie
94 Points - James Suckling
This Greenock Shiraz is sourced from a small 80 year old single vineyard in the Hamlet of Greenock in the Western Ridge of the Barossa Valley. Gnarly old vines, that produce fruit of deep flavour and intensity, very much an old school Barossa vineyard. 10% whole bunches with the rest whole berries, fermented naturally for 12 days then basket pressed to only French oak (30% new). It remained in this same oak for 18 months before blending and settling prior to bottling.
Bottled unfined and unfiltered and is Vegan friendly.
95 Points - Halliday Wine Companion 2024 Single-vineyard Greenock shiraz; 90/10% whole berries/whole bunches, wild ferment, 18 months' maturation in French oak. Inviting aromas of satsuma plum and liqueur cherry fruits cut with hints of baking spices, amaro herbs, violets, olive tapenade, dark chocolate, pastis and roasting meats. Full bodied with a gorgeous fruit density and flow, tightly packed powdery tannin etched with ironstone and graphite and a long, sustained finish.
95 Points - Winepilot Jeni Port Fits the definition of Barossa warmth and sweet-fruited abundance, so much so, the urge is to drink now and not wait. Fruit is on the darker end of the spectrum: blackberry, bramble, liquorice amid the most enticing exotic spice mix of nutmeg, rosemary and crushed fennel seed. Joined by vanillin oak on the palate, there is breadth and warmth, the essence of Barossa Shiraz familiarity and comfort, enlivened by clean, precise and well-integrated tannins. Do you drink now or wait? That’s the question. There’s always potential to do both, if your bank account allows.
94 Points - WBM Mike Bennie
94 Points - James Suckling
This Greenock Shiraz is sourced from a small 80 year old single vineyard in the Hamlet of Greenock in the Western Ridge of the Barossa Valley. Gnarly old vines, that produce fruit of deep flavour and intensity, very much an old school Barossa vineyard. 10% whole bunches with the rest whole berries, fermented naturally for 12 days then basket pressed to only French oak (30% new). It remained in this same oak for 18 months before blending and settling prior to bottling.
Bottled unfined and unfiltered and is Vegan friendly.
95 Points - Halliday Wine Companion 2024 Single-vineyard Greenock shiraz; 90/10% whole berries/whole bunches, wild ferment, 18 months' maturation in French oak. Inviting aromas of satsuma plum and liqueur cherry fruits cut with hints of baking spices, amaro herbs, violets, olive tapenade, dark chocolate, pastis and roasting meats. Full bodied with a gorgeous fruit density and flow, tightly packed powdery tannin etched with ironstone and graphite and a long, sustained finish.
95 Points - Winepilot Jeni Port Fits the definition of Barossa warmth and sweet-fruited abundance, so much so, the urge is to drink now and not wait. Fruit is on the darker end of the spectrum: blackberry, bramble, liquorice amid the most enticing exotic spice mix of nutmeg, rosemary and crushed fennel seed. Joined by vanillin oak on the palate, there is breadth and warmth, the essence of Barossa Shiraz familiarity and comfort, enlivened by clean, precise and well-integrated tannins. Do you drink now or wait? That’s the question. There’s always potential to do both, if your bank account allows.
94 Points - WBM Mike Bennie
94 Points - James Suckling
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It was hand-picked, open fermented with a small percentage of whole bunches, with the rest whole berries, and basket pressed into only French oak 33% new with the remaining percentage aged in second fill oak for 18 months. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered.
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Greenock, Barossa Valley
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Drinking beautifully now to 2040.
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14.5%
