Indigo Vineyard Beechworth Shiraz 2021

Description

The Indigo Vineyard is located 12km’s from Beechworth in the foothills of the Victorian Alps. Wine has been produced in the area since 1950 when the Brown Bros vineyard was planted at Everton Hills. The Indigo Vineyard was planted in 1999. The vineyard site is at an elevation of 350 metres with 46ha of vineyards planted to 11 varieties, including the top French and Italian grapes. The business sells about half of it’s fruit to Brokenwood wines, where Indigo wines are made by Marc Scalzo and and Stuart Hordern. The finest parcels of shiraz fruit from the vineyard are selected to go into this wine.

The hot days and cool nights, granitic sand and clay loam soils and a location in foothills of the Victorian Alps combine to create an amazing terroir for growing super premium grapes.

From the winemaker about this wine: “We are really excited by this wine. Only the very best barrels went into the blend. It’s a typically medium bodied Beechworth style. Refined. Elegant. Delicious.”

The Shiraz was pressed with a combination of whole bunch and whole berries. It was vinified in small open fermenters with pump overs and hand plunging twice a day. The wine was pressed when dry and finished fermentation in barrels after undergoing malolactic fermentation in wood. The Shiraz matured in French oak puncheons and barriques (30% new oak) and was racked twice during 16 months in oak.

The wine has a typical Beechworth mouthwatering medium bodied style. The colour is a lovely dark crimson. On the nose there is the dark brooding fruit and a powerful middle palate. Gorgeous wine and a bargain for quality and value.

93 points, Jeni Port, Halliday Wine Companion: “Super ripe by Beechworth standards and revelling in lashings of black fruits, plum, bramble, allspice, star anise and gentle oak-derived vanilla notes. Generous and sweet-fruited, it brings a full-on, cool climate spice attack to the palate. Fine-meshed tannins provide the brakes, slowing down the middle palate, providing a moment of depth with an added touch of undergrowth and smoked deli meats before heading to the finish line.”

RRP $35   **Our Special Price $29.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine**