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Description
Six outstanding value and highly-rated reds from Alex Head, featuring the new 96 point 2023 release of Old Vine Grenache.
- 2022 Head Red GSM
- 2022 Head Red Shiraz
- 2022 Head Red Cabernet Sauvignon
- 2021 Head The Contrarian Shiraz
- 2023 Head Old Vine Grenache
- 2022 Head Old Vine Shiraz
2022 Head Red GSM
Alex Head's Head GSM is fresher take on a classic Barossan Grenache blend, focusing on perfume, drinkability, and offering great value.
Alex's passion for contemporary Barossa wines shines through in this blend. He collaborates with small, sustainable growers, sourcing grapes from some of the region's oldest vineyards, up to 100 years old.
The Grenache offers vibrant fruit, Shiraz adds dried herb notes, and Mataro brings spice and tannin, creating a harmonious blend with plush fruit, fresh acidity and a long, spicy finish.
This is a versatile mid-week slurper, perfect with pizza, pasta, or on its own. As with all of Alex's wines, it delivers superb value, and an honest taste of the Barossa through a modern lens.
2022 Head Red Shiraz
The Head Red Shiraz is considered the trailer or preview to each vintage of the Head premium single-vineyard Shirazes.
This is made from the barrels that barely missed the cut on the SV Shiraz; The Blonde; The Brunette and The Contrarian. Made with all the love and care that go into his top-flight releases, Alex Head releases this as a younger wine as something to enjoy whilst waiting for his premium releases to mature.
It's plush, full-bodied yet built for early drinking in the best possible way. For easy-drinking but serious Barossa Shiraz, it's hard to go past this release.
2022 Head Red Cabernet Sauvignon
The 2022 Head Red Cabernet Sauvignon is an absolute gem, showcasing the best of Barossa's secret weapon - Cabernet.
From an Ebenezer vineyard planted in 1950, this is a blend of small parcels of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot. Fermented naturally with indigenous yeast and minimally handled, this wine is all about purity.
It's full of classic Cabernet notes of blackcurrant, black cherry, and cassis, layered with hints of tobacco and a creamy texture. Fine tannins give the wine a polished finish without losing that bold Barossa depth.
A wonderfully approachable Cabernet and tremendous value for money.
93 Points
"A blend of 85% cabernet sauvignon, 5% merlot, 5% cabernet franc, 3% malbec and 2% petit verdot from across the subregions of Ebenezer, Nuriootpa and Flaxman Valley. Ripe blackberry and black cherry fruits with hints of cinnamon, clove, tobacco, olive tapenade, sage, cedar and cassis. An inflow of blackcurrant pastille on the palate lifts things up a notch, the tannins are fine and powdery, and there is a cassis-like flow on the exit."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)
2021 Head The Contrarian Shiraz
The Contrarian Shiraz is a chance for Alex Head to spread his wings and explore his home region in South Australia, and this is one of the best releases of this wine to date.
Offering excellent value for both the intermediate and serious collector, The Contrarian can be enjoyed now or in a decade plus.
It's a spicier, more 'European' style of Shiraz from Alex, and one that's garnered quite a cult-following over the years. The influence of whole bunch ferment making itself known in the structure and savouriness of the wine. Top buying here for any Barossa Shiraz fan.
2023 Head Old Vine Grenache
The Old Vine Grenache is one of Alex's specialities and arguably one of the first and most important Grenache wines of the modern era to inspire the flood of more refined Grenache we see emerging across Australia today.
The fruit from this 166-year-old vineyard gets full opportunity to show its true character. An extraordinary wine for its price. It shows a rare restraint in the use of oak. It's all about the dark rich fruit, and with fruit this beautiful, by Jove, it should be! Lots of baked earth and spice flavours too.
An excellent contemporary example of Australia's world-class Grenache capabilities.
96 points
"Stunning stuff and fabulous value. 200 dozen. A crimson/magenta hue, the nose is a mix of strawberries, florals, raspberries, milk chocolate and coffee grinds. The wine offers impressive intensity and is wonderfully seductive with silky tannins and great length. This is a brilliant Grenache and can be enjoyed for at least a decade, likely longer."
- Ken Gargett, The Vintage Journal
2022 Head Old Vine Shiraz
The Old Vine Shiraz is the twin of Alex Head's benchmark Old Vine Grenache.
These wines celebrate the incredible vineyard resources that Alex is lucky enough to work with. The vines that contribute to this release are up to 100 years old. To get fruit from these rare historic sites, made by a talent such as Alex at this price point, shows the remarkable value to be had in Australian wine at the moment.
This is classic Barossa Shiraz - robust, powerful and deliciously opulent.
95 points
"A seductive, comforting nose of plush dark red fruits sits in harmony with black earth and a fresh waft of field herbs and eucalypt. A splash of Cabernet helps its appeal. Yep, sure seems like Australia to me – and the rich palate is generous without being bulky, underpinned by solid structure, a firm seam of fine-grained tannins and the most gentle oak frame to bind it all through a long, balanced ride."
- David Sly (Decanter)
Customer Reviews
| Country | Australia |
| Region | Barossa Valley |
| Size | 5 |
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