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“Pete and his partner Magali Gely operate what I think is the best new-wave of small-scale Barossa wine companies to emerge at the beginning of the 21st century… These weren’t big, blockbuster, showy wines designed to impress. They were wines that managed to take the best of the Barossa’s sometimes forgotten varietal traditions and fuse them onto a very European flavour sensibility.” Max Allen, The future makers
“It seems that Spinifex wines can do no wrong.” Campbell Mattinson
This 2012 release has trumped us all! Probably his finest Esprit to date! Terrific long growing season in the Barossa has delivered the goods in this fine blend of Mataro, Grenache, Shiraz, Carignan and Cinsault. Complex aromatics of red currents, sour cherry, pomegranate and hints of freshly roasted coffee. Medium to full bodied, fresh dry palate with layers of intense red fruit, dried herbs and spice flavours. Lingering finish with a firm tight structure. At a previous tasting, Pete Schell, winemaker, declared that if he could only ever make one wine again, this would be it, he’d “die a happy man”. Like the name says, it has truely captured his “spirit”.
95 points James Halliday 2016 Aust Wine Companion “A 78/10/6/4/2% blend of grenache, mataro, cinsaut, shiraz and carignan. You would hope the best winemakers of the southern Rhone Valley would doff their caps in appreciation of this elegant, yet vividly flavoured, wine. A smorgasbord of red fruits do most of the heavy lifting, but with some support from savoury/earthy/spicy tannin-related flavours; despite that spread, the wine retains elegance and focus.”
RRP $36
