Spinifex La Colline 2010

Description

‘Pete and his partner Magali Gely operate what I think is the best new-wave of small-scale Barossa wine companies to emerge at the beginning of the 21st century… These weren’t big, blockbuster, showy wines designed to impress. They were wines that managed to take the best of the Barossa’s sometimes forgotten varietal traditions and fuse them onto a very European flavour sensibility.‘ Max Allen, The future makers

‘It seems that Spinifex wines can do no wrong.’ Campbell Mattinson

This release from Spinifex is Pete Schell’s first all-Adelaide Hills fruit bottling.  La Colline, meaing The Hill, is 100% Shiraz sourced from three vineyards that are around 15 years of age in the Northern Adelaide Hills. Here the soils are skeletal, silty, granitic sands with easterly aspects and elevations between 390 and 480 metres above sea level.

From the superb 2010 vintage this “Rhône-esqe”, aromatic shiraz leaps out of the glass with notes of violet, red & black cherry, game, cardamom, bay leaf, and some licorice. The palate is super smooth and fine, with the texture effortlessly carried by long, limber tannins and balancing acidity. Some bottle age will only make this wine sing!  Very limited!
RRP $38