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205 Tasting Notes
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2022 Agricola Vintners Theel's Handfibel
4/10/2024 - Cbanks wrote:
SWIG - A blend of Ebenezer - from the Hoffman Dallwitz block vineyard that goes into Sami-Odi's wine - and the 158 year old vines of Asbroek's "Ancient" block (1864 vines), that has been historically tightly held by St. Hallett for decades as a core component of their Old Block Shiraz. Both outlined above. The label is an old alphabet chart from from the 1880s from a local school. Still settling into itself, this is a phenomenal blend of these two great, historical vineyards.
2436 bottles made 13.5% alc. Drink now to 2045.
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2022 Agricola Vintners Flaxman Valley
4/10/2024 - Cbanks wrote:
SWIG - The 2022 Flaxman Valley Syrah is sourced from three vineyards that are East facing, and cooler than many spots in Barossa, and wetter: his family's old-vine home block which is over 100 years old, a steep hillside vineyard on their neighbour's property around 500 metres above sea level and Chris Ringland's vineyard next door, that had been decimated by a serve hail storm but Callum was able to handpick what he could - some of south Australia's highest lying vines.
With Callum’s unwavering local knowledge of the land and the three single vineyard plots used, shows how much precision is taken when making these wines. This is definitely more Syrah than Shiraz. Black pepper, olive tapenade, fennel seeds, bitter herbs, tea and brush, with a salinity, all dancing on top of cool black fruits. Fluidity on the palate is matched with lightly grippy tension and a lifted finish.
1968 bottles made 13.2%. Drink 2023-2047.
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2019 Tenuta Dei Sette Cieli Indaco
3/6/2024 - Cbanks wrote:
Jancis Robinson
The scent of iris and violet and orris root floats above the glass – too river-stone cool to be heady, but too fragrant to be stony. The wine is like a warm summer night, the way it moves over the skin: a flow so laminar it is stillness. Midnight-blue fruit soaking through the cashmere tannins. Dark-red wild berries curling through the cracks in the stone-and-iron minerality. Cool oakmoss breath of cistus warming into musk as it becomes saturated with the quiet, graceful beauty of the fruit. It's glorious right now but has a long life ahead. Drink 2024 to 2035. 17.5pts. (TC)
Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot (roughly one-third of each). An ‘extreme selection’: best parcels and best parts of the parcels and best barrels. 18 months in barriques. Pressed straight to 225-litre French barriques once fermentation is over . In 2019 it was 15 months in barrel, then racked into tank, and then three years in bottle before release - the reason for this is that altitude and soil it means the wines have very high acidity and low pH, so when they are young, they are not very approachable. It needs time in bottle to ‘relax’. They rented a huge warehouse so they can hold bottles back until they are ready to drink. 14,500 bottles.
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