Description
Glenguin Vineyard was first planted in the 1980s with an average vine age now over 25 years and each wine comes from a small individual vineyard block on the property. Organic and biodynamic farming practices are used at Glenguin where things are still done by hand from planting through vine training to pruning and handpicking at vintage.
The shiraz and semillon vines at Glenguin are directly descended from James Busby’s original planting at Kirkton in the 1820s. They are planted on their own roots on a unique combination of a raised gravel bench for shiraz with sandy loam over red basalt for Semillon.
Glenguin wines have won major Trophies including NSW and Boutique Wine Show Trophies for best white wine plus both Best Red and NSW Wine of the Year at the NSW Wine Awards for shiraz. Production is extremely limited with just a few hundred cases of each of their wines which are only made in good vintages. Halliday Wine Companion 2020.
2017 was an excellent growing season in the Hunter.
From the winemaker: “The latest release of our flagship Aristea continues the theme of previous vintages – dark berry fruits, hints of new oak and firm tannins give the wine the weight and power to continue to develop in the bottle over the long term.
Showcasing the terroir of the vineyard at work, and only produced in exceptional vintages, the best parcels of fruit from the Schoolhouse Block are hand-picked then fermented on skins for 14 days, 30% whole bunches, before being pressed into French oak puncheons (50% new) to mature over the next 12 months.
The wine spends another 4 years maturing in bottle to let the flavours and aromas come together, backed by fine tannins and well-balanced acidity.
The 2017 Aristea Shiraz is a deep rich red wine with the balance, weight, concentration and power allowing development of wonderful complexity over many decades, demonstrating the heights that Shiraz can achieve in the Hunter Valley.”
96 points Halliday’s 2021 Australian Wine Companion ““Deeply coloured, this is a fascinating picture of the ’17 vintage with the contrast whole bunch with the other 80% of the fruit. It rumbles volcanically, discouraging further enquiry. It really is something way out of the ordinary, 96 points, drink by 2057, James Halliday “
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