Leeuwin Estate 'Art Series' Shiraz 2022
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- TASTING NOTE: "A wonderful dark purple colour. Floral and spicy with flashes of black pepper, dark plums and redcurrants. The palate is tightly coiled and there’s a nuttiness alongside the cedary oak, licorice and hot stone/iodine characters with an astringency throughout and raspy tannins in tow. Best to decant if opening now but this is still a baby, so more time in bottle is needed to allow it to grow up." 93 points - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion 2024
- ABOUT THE WINE: Shiraz (94%), Viognier (3%), Malbec (3%). All fruit was individually berry sorted and fermented in open and closed fermenters with 20% being whole bunches on top to enhance vibrancy and further lift. The fermenting wine was plunged and pumped over daily before transferred to a mix of new, one- and two-year-old barriques and larger format French oak. The wine underwent malolactic fermentation in barrels and after six months the various components were blended and matured in barrel for a further 12 months. After assemblage the wine was fined and prepared for bottling.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Leeuwin Estate, one of the founding wineries in the Margaret River region of Western Australia, is a family producer with an international reputation for creating wines ranking alongside the world’s finest. In 1972, legendary Napa Valley winemaker, Robert Mondavi, identified the future site of the Leeuwin vineyard as being ideal for the production of premium wine and provided early mentorship to Denis and Tricia Horgan in the transformation of their cattle farm into Leeuwin Estate. A nursery was planted in 1974 with vineyard sites planted from 1975. Enjoying its first commercial vintage in 1979, Leeuwin Estate was thrust into the global wine spotlight when Decanter Magazine highly recommended the 1981 “Art Series” Chardonnay after an international blind tasting. The accolades have continued, with Leeuwin Estate wines found in leading Restaurants and Wine Merchants across 30 markets. Now under the stewardship of three generations of the founding family, who work alongside a team of dedicated viticulturalists and winemakers, the focus remains firmly on creating site expressive wines of the finest quality. Celebrating the art of fine wine, the Estate’s most opulent and age worthy wines, the “Art Series’ are identified with paintings from Australia’s leading contemporary artists on the labels.
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Margaret River, Western Australia
- VARIETAL: Shiraz
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Tim Lovett
- CLASSIFICATION: Sustainable Farming
- CLOSURE: Screwcap
- ABV%: 13.5%
- SIZE: 750ml
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