Thorn-Clarke Wines Barossa
Wines
2010 William Randell Shiraz
Comments
Deep red / purple colour, the nose displays lifted spice with layers of dark chocolate, mocha and Christmas cake. The palate is rich and full bodied with blackberries, cassis and mocha oak notes which characterise this intensely flavoured Barossa Shiraz. The wine is mouth filling and satisfying with its creamy texture and fine silky tannins. The wine has great length with lingering flavours of blackberry fruit and well integrated oak.
Vinification Notes
The fruit was harvested at night. Fermentation was carried out in a variety of small capacity fermenters. After pressing the parcels were filled to French oak for maturation. The wine was racked after six months and the parcels were blended to form the final wine.
Maturation
24 months in 100% new French oak.
Vintage Notes
Average winter rainfall in 2009 resulted in good soil moisture in the 2010 growing season. This combined with moderate weather conditions through most of the growing season allowed for good fruit set and canopy development.
Harvested
March 2010
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Price: $60.00
2010 William Randell Shiraz
James Halliday, Weekend Australian, November 2012
97 Points: 'Inky purple crimson; as the colour promises, a wine saturated with all manner of black fruits and bitter chocolate. Yet it has an open-weave texture that keeps it light on its feet and allows a farewell of juicy fruit to find its way through the quality oak and fine tannins. An exceptional shiraz.'
Jeremy Olivers Australian Wine Annual 2013
93 Points: 'Stylish and engaging, with the stablity and structure to age well. Its heady, floral bouquet of small-berries and plums, fine grained and newish cedar/vanilla/bubblegum oak is laced with scents of violets and raspberries. It's smooth, deeply layered and intensely flavoured, with a pristine presence of dark, sour-edged fruits and tightly knit oak underpinned by firmish, dusty tannins. It finishes with length, balance and brightness.'
2010 William Randell Shiraz
Gold at 2012 China Wine and Spirit Awards
Gold at 2012 New Zealand International Wine Show
Silver at 2012 Adelaide Wine Show
Silver at 2012 Melbourne Wine Show
Silver at 2012 Speigelau International Wine Competition (NZ)
Silver at Shanghai International Wine Challenge 2012
Bronze at 2012 Barossa Wine Show
Bronze at 2012 International Wine and Spirit Competition
Bronze at 2012 National Wine Show
Bronze at 2012 Queensland Wine Show
Seal of Approval at 2012 Korea Wine Challenge
2010 William Randell Shiraz
RegionBarossa
BottledMay 2012
Alcohol14.5%
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