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Luke Lambert Crudo Shiraz 2017

$26.99

Vibrant, juicy, crunchy food friendly tannins, from Yarra Valley’s best vintage.

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“LL is a genius. One of the most gifted winemakers in the country.” Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

It’s been almost a decade since Lambert’s daring, handcrafted and joyously aromatic wines first made their way down from the Yarra Valley and on to the lists and shelves of Melbourne’s finest wine establishments (and a few of Sydney’s).

Lambert is obviously inspired by his experience making wine in Piemonte and Australia yet firmly believes that the personality of a wine will be dictated by its “place”. Lambert’s source vineyards (in poor, rocky and elevated pockets of the Yarra Valley) are therefore managed in order to bring out their unique geographic signature in the final wines.
All Luke Lambert wines are handpicked and of single-vineyard origin. They are wildly perfumed with moderate alcohol, fresh acidities, powdery tannins, and limited oak influence. Luke’s methodology includes wild ferments without the aid of temperature control, hand plunging, long macerations (with plenty of whole-bunch for the Syrahs), basket-pressing, gravity rather than pumping, old oak, and no fining or filtration. Lambert’s belief that “..the best wines have always been made by feel and are always sourced from unique and interesting vineyards that have natural balance and grow grapes full of character…” comes through strongly in the remarkable complexity and placeness of these wines.

2017 was a brilliant vintage … In my view 2017 was the perfect harvest, a 10 out of 10. I wonder how many more like that I’ll get in the rest of my career making wine.”  Luke Lambert is not pulling any punches on 2017: “It’s the best harvest I’ve seen in the Valley, he starts, “it’s broken the trend of early/warm harvests and in fact was wonderfully mild, long and slow, which brought a lot of perfume and great acidity. In my view it was the perfect harvest, a 10 out of 10, and I wonder how many more like that I’ll get in the rest of my career making wine. I suspect it may be the one I look back on as the best growing season of my career.”

Luke Lambert’s mindset is to bottle the Crudo Shiraz as a young, vibrant and juicy quencher for an early release, and the granitic Denton soils help him tick all the boxes. As Luke puts it, “it’s a warmer site than the (previous source) Tibooburra vineyard, so it lends itself to producing the juicier, more primary fruit driven wine that Crudo needs to be.”

Utilising 60% whole bunches, the wine is wild ferment, wild malo and matured in a combination of old oak and tank. As always it’s bottled without fining or filtration, with just a smidge of sulphur at bottling. Luke describes the 2017 Crudo as “clear graphite/granite/smoky lift and more red fruited than previous vintages.” It’s a red wine that’s as refreshing as refreshing can be, crammed with crunchy red fruits, a nip of food-friendly tannin, great energy and impressive persistence. There is also plenty of pepper and spice in the background too that will kick in once the wine has had a few more months in bottle. A fab Crudo Shiraz.  13% Alc.

“Great release this one. It has a sparkling clarity and energy about it, I feel. Aside from that, you may find raspberries and blackberries, cracked pepper, spice, and a distinct sort of warm bricks smell, but don’t mind me. It’s fine and fresh, with graphite tannin, and a cool spiced bramble fruited finish of finesse and solid length. It’s one of those, well, I could be 93 or 94 points, but today, the sun is shining and the weather is sweet. So.” 94 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

RRP $32

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Additional information

Producer

Luke Lambert

Region or Country

Australia, Yarra Valley

Variety

Shiraz

Vintage

2017

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