Atlas Clare Valley Shiraz 2018
$25.50
Full bodied, beautifully balanced.
2 in stock
Description
Not surprising James Halliday rated them a 5 Red Star Winery saying “...The quality of the wines is extraordinarily good and extraordinarily consistent.”
From the winemaker about the 2018 vintage “This wine was made predominantly from fruit we know very well – the Shiraz grown at our own vineyard at White Hut, just outside the Clare township. The vines here grow in a mosaic of soil types which are generally quite bony, yielding fruit with incredible power and intensity. This is supplemented with fruit from neighbouring vineyards and from our vineyard at Leasingham, at the southern end of the valley which has a cooler aspect and contributes elegance and spice.
“This Shiraz was handled in small batches and hand-plunged in open fermenters, for gentle extraction of colour and flavour while maintaining a soft, supple mouthfeel. This approach helps the ferment breath and allows us to keep a very close eye on the development of the wine through fermentation to ensure that it’s not over-extracted. It’s a hallmark of a truly handcrafted boutique wine. After fermentation, the wine was barrel-matured in quality French oak, in a combination of hogsheads and puncheons for approximately 18 months.
“This Shiraz is a brick red colour with purple hues and displays an intense nose of blackberry and blackcurrant fruits, mocha and star anise with hints of cedary. It’s a medium to full-bodied wine with rich fruitcake and mulberry flabours overlying soft tannins and structural acidity, which will stand the wine in good stead for years to come.”
Review for 2017 ..93 points, Jane Faulkner, 2022 Halliday Wine Companion “Immediately appealing with its whorl of dark fruits infused with baking spices, a sprinkling of dried mint and cocoa. Fuller-bodied with a plushness across the palate buoyed by supple tannins and no new oak to clamp down all that joy. Terrific drink.”
RRP $30 *Our Price $25.50
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Additional information
Producer | Atlas |
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Region or Country | Australia, Clare Valley |
Variety | Shiraz |
Vintage | 2018 |
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