Named after a racehorse and from a thoroughbred winery, the 2020 Footbolt Shiraz should gallop out the door. It's just one of those great drinking, come home to kind of wines that offers plenty of happy drinking and even more bang for your buck. 2020 was an exceptional vintage in the McLaren Vale.
The Footbolt is a consistently great McLaren Vale Shiraz. Generously rich with amazing fruit weight and balanced, chewy tanins. Brimming with ripe red fruits and an underlying layer of subtle oak, as well as a hint of pepper. This wine represents great value, and has a long life ahead of it… If you can resist!
Winery notes (2020 Vintage)
"Joseph Osborn was a successful racehorse owner and Footbolt was the pride of his stable. In 1912 he made the hard decision to sell his horses to purchase the d'Arenberg property.
Vivid, deep purple-crimson. Aromas of blackberries, plum and boysenberries brings a fragrant perfumed bouquet. The palate carries an array of black fruits, plums, cassis, black cherries and a savoury dark chocolate finish makes this wine irresistible. Velvety and well-integrated tannins shows a perfect balance between the ripe fruit and the oak maturation. Formidable McLaren Vale Shiraz made in inimitable d’Arenberg style."
89/100 Wine Spectator (2020 Vintage)
"Aromatic, with chai tea, black pepper, blueberry syrup and wild blackberry flavours, plus tobacco and generous baking spices on a dense, velvety frame. Drink now."
89/100 Wine Enthusiast (2020 Vintage)
"Plush chocolate, plums and blackberries with some earthy, beet root tang and florals is the opening act to this mouthfilling Shiraz. The plump, juicy fruit flavours are wound in powerful tannins that are slightly drying."