LANGMEIL LINEAGE SHIRAZ 2017

Winery notes (2017 Vintage)
"This wine is a tribute to patience and persistence while celebrating Shiraz’s pedigree as a classic grape variety. Shiraz’s Lineage dates to Roman times, but the Barossa’s journey with Shiraz began in the 1840s. Professor Johannes Menge advised the Prussian migrants with incisive foresight that viticulture had great potential to thrive in ‘New Silesia’.

An intense aroma of ripe Satsuma plum, mocha, vanilla, and savoury notes combined with hints of cedar and sweet spices. The palate is rich, sweet fruit is balanced wonderfully with briary, sweet spices and lovely, silky tannins. A full-bodied, textural wine, showing great complexity with hints of cedar and allspice flowing through to the lengthy, bramble fruit finish. Twenty-six months in 50% new French oak and 50% seasoned French oak. From vines up to 174-year-old."

5 Stars & 97/100 Huon Hooke, The Real Review (2017 Vintage)
"Medium to deep ruby red. Mulberry, mocha, and coconut oil aromatics all lift from the glass. Palate is weighty with dark fruits and cola spices yet for all its intensity there’s a vibrancy that surprises. Great length and drive: it sits in a unique pathway across the tongue that contrasts amazing intensity with a unique subtlety. Serious shiraz that shows a gifted understanding of the fruit."