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, The Wine Front.
Sixty cases of this rare wine were bottled from a single 600 litre demi-muid. The story goes that from the 2010 vintage (a great vintage for Spinifex) Pete found he had an especially intense wine in barrel; one that, on account of its more “traditional” Barossan density and structure, he felt would have changed the stylistic complexion of his 2010 blends. More so, at the time he also felt the wine was quite backward, needing additional aging to show its best. So there we have it. The wine saw 30 per cent whole bunch inclusion, matured in a single thick stave, 600 litre demi muid. This is intensely perfumed with a nose that suggests smoked meats, charcoal, and dark cherries. The palate is finely structured and beautifully weighted with a wonderful freshness and vibrancy. Again, there are lots of black cherries and other dark fruits intermingled with graphite-like complexity and powdery tannins. Some oak impact, but very classy oak. Again power with incredible elegance. A super classy and incredibly seductive Shiraz.
94 points Mike Bennie, The Wine Front “Thick set, dark, brooding perfume of leather, choc-berry and earthiness. Richness segues to palate – long, slow drive of slick, dense fruit with more of the ample leather-mahogany-dense fruit, lingering with a trim of dusty tannin, wood spice and earth. It’s powerful, but still shows freshness; the wine in chrysalis showing some tightness and squeaky feel. Definite old school feel; great to see Spinifex switch-hitting so successfully. Complex wine here anyway. Cue the fireplace, slow-cooked animal and a loyal dog at feet.”
RRP $100
