2022 Paralian Springs Hill Vineyard Shiraz

Highly Rated
Charlie Seppelt & Skye Salter's stylish McLaren Vale Shiraz. It's Shiraz in a perfectly tailored suit.

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Charlie Seppelt and Skye Salter had both previously worked with the Shiraz grown on the ‘Springs Hill Vineyard’ in Blewitt Springs.

When the time came to source some fruit for their own label, they approached the Whaite family to see if they could secure some fruit. A small parcel was brought to their winery, a small amount of whole bunch used, and an even smaller amount of new oak.

They have perfectly captured the blue fruits and spice that leap from the glass from Shiraz grown in the sandy Blewitt Springs soils. Effortlessly drinkable.

96 points
"This is an excellent wine of a sophisticated order. Among the better wines tastes in recent memory."
- Ned Goodwin MW (JamesSuckling.com)

Single Vineyard Shiraz, fruit sourced from ‘Springs Hill Vineyard’, Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale grown by the Whaite family
Hand-picked fruit, wild-fermented in a 134-year-old wax lined concrete open fermenter, 20% whole bunch (foot trodden for tannin extraction from ripe rachis), remainder destemmed. Cold soaked for 5 days, plunged and pumped over during peak of ferment, 10 days on skins. Wine was matured on lees for 10 months in French oak, 20% new.
Black core of fruits with whole white and black pepper spice notes, deep blueberry fruits, roasted earth note a fresh road tar aroma and coal dust. Medium framed and savoury, tannins fine like Dutch cocoa with hallmark Springs Hill fruit weight to complement. This is a wonderfully fine and complex Shiraz, indicative of site and the season it grew in.

Region: McLaren Vale, SA
Blend: Shiraz (100%)
ABV: 14.00%
Closure: 750ml
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94 Points - "Blue and black fruit, spice, new leather, iodine and oyster shell. It’s medium-bodied, kind of wheaty and spicy, distinct saline character, dried spices, blackcurrant and blueberry, some orange peel and dark chocolate bitterness, grainy open weave kind of dark chocolate tannin too, with a juicy and zesty finish of good length. Spicy, a little meaty too. Has a cool and composed character. A little sappy, but very good." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

96 Points - "A lustrous crimson. Fine, detailed and succulent boasting riffs on blueberry, white pepper, lilac, nori and cardamon – so finessed to be almost separable, undone across seams of svelte, sandy tannins. This is a glorious shiraz, with the pulp and verve of berries, clusters and foot-trodden tannins finding a glorious confluence of freshness, lilt and effortless length. Crozes-Hermitage from the Vale." - Ned Goodwin MW (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points - "Extremely refined shiraz, medium-bodied and whetting the palate with refined tannins and Blewitt Springs salinity. Delicious notes of Damson plums, violets, cloves and pepper. The structure is taut and long. This is an excellent wine of a sophisticated order. Among the better wines tastes in recent memory. Drink or hold. Screw cap." - Ned Goodwin MW (JamesSuckling.com)

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