Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2010 LAST OF THIS VINTAGE AVAILABLE!

Description

Established in 1978. Greenock Creek is a ’boutique ‘ Barossa winery owned by Michael & Annabelle Waugh. Their old dry grown. low yielding vineyard (planted in the 1940s) produce wines of extraordinary depth and character. They produce a minuscule 2500 cases per year their cellar door is only open 36 days a year because they sell out every year to their mailing list. Not surprising this limited production winery has achieved cult status (their Roennfeldt Road Shiraz is classified as “Outstanding ” in Langtons Australian Wine Classification). The world ‘s most influential wine critic. Robert Parker Jr of The Wine Advocate said .. “If I had to select the number one Australian winery. it would be hard not to choose the Greenock Creek Winery … these are thrilling. world class wines that are about as compelling as wine can be. ”

This rich. dark red wine has complex aromas of spice and fruit. plums. berries and a splash of dark chocolate with a lingering velvety finish.

Evocative notes from writer Phillip White .. 92++ points … “Beetroot. Licorice. Fresh juniper berries. Currants. Aniseed. Coconut husk. Hessian. Australia summer dust when you get out of the car. Cheeky and over the top in audacious freshness. and then moody and deep. with olive leaf greens. The palate is doughy and thick. It ™s syrupy. It tastes of a reduction of all the above. A dumpling drowned in a wild crème de cassis and raspberry sauce with a splash of framboise stirred in at the end. It ™s not stewed. but it ™s simmered. Conserve rather than jam “ the fruit’s lost none of its acidity. Its tannin is persistent but no harder than dusty velvet. and the whole thing ™s so intense it ™s like a bright young vintage port of illegally low alcohol and stern acid. Reminds me a little of the moody. muddy. swampy Langhorne Creek reds. with snaky Ry Cooder bottleneck comin ™ through the smoke. Then. each year at least one of these wines evokes spooky Cooder slide. Poor thing ™s quite awkward in this its infancy “ more so than most. I’d give it three years to chill. and then plan ahead. “