Description
Howard Park, one of Western Australia’s pioneering wine families with a 30 year history and two generations of tireless work of the Burch family, they specialise in the state’s premier grape-growing regions of Margaret River and the Great Southern. They are also part of Australia’s First Families of Wine (AFFW), an exciting collective of 12 multi-generational family-owned wine producers.
Winemaker Janice McDonald and the family are still celebrating after winning Gourmet Traveller Winemaker of the Year for 2018. Peter Forrestal, of Gourmet Traveller said “Janice McDonald is an astounding winemaker: demanding of herself and others; rigorous; painstaking in her attention to detail.”
Margaret River is Australia’s most spectacular wine region with breathtaking coastline, Karri forests and maritime climate perfectly suited to premium grape growing. 100% estate grown fruit Howard Park makes beautiful wines with depth of fruit, balance and structure that overdeliver across the board.
About this wine from the winemaker: “This wine is part of Howard Park’s Distinguished Sites range. Shiraz from the Leston vineyard, located in the heart of Margaret River is
crafted to highlight the distinctive varietal and regional qualities of our best sites. The expression of Shiraz from this temperate region combines the ripeness and opulence of a warm climate with the spice and elegance of more typical of cooler ones.
“The wine was blended from a selection of the best batches of Shiraz grown on the Leston vineyard, which is located in the Willyabrup locale of Margaret River. The soils in this vineyard are shallow lateritic gravels over sandy, clay loam.
“Small parcels were hand-picked and all batches were sorted to remove matter other than grapes, before fermentation. Fermentation occured in open vat and closed stainless steel fermenters. Select parcels of wine were run to barrel between 2 & 3º Baume to capture new barrel characters from the final degrees of fermentation. The remaining blocks were pressed at dryness to retain fruit vibrancy. Each batch was matured separately in order to build a wine history over time. The wine was matured for 18 months in new (~ 25%) and older French oak barriques, hogsheads and puncheons. After blending to tank the wine was lightly fined and filtered prior to bottling.
Newly released. Previous vintage – Trophy Winner – 2025 Adelaide Wine Show – including Most Outstanding Red Wine in Show.
95 points, Ryan Montgomery for jamessuckling.com “Spice- and fruit-driven aromas of dark cherries, blood plums, crushed stones, spices, graphite and purple flowers. The palate is rounded with a creamy texture and silky tannins. 10% whole-bunch fermentation with wild yeast leads to a really balanced and complex shiraz. Delicious.
94 points, Ray Jordan “One of the most beautiful and prettiest shiraz from this vineyard in Margaret River. It’s so smooth and seamless with a high degree of polish that shows quality of fruit and sympathetic winemaking. On the nose, an intensity of blackberry and red fruits and then a palate which shows more spiciness with the red fruits more evident, and it all contributes to a certain plush lusciousness with a thread of ripe tannins giving it that textural feel.”
RRP $42 *Our Special Price $31.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine*
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