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2006 Shotfire Shiraz
Comments
Deep red in colour. The lifted nose has ripe rasberries and anise, with choc mint oak characters. The palate is full bodied with fantastic berry fruit, plums, liquorice and complexing oak. There is a great depth of fruit with savoury oak and mouth coating tannins. The fruit, oak and tannins all combine to give the wine great length of fl avour. This wine drinks well now and will age up to 7 years.
Winemaking
The grapes are crushed and destemmed into open fermenters. Yeast is added immediately once in fermenter and the ferments are pumped over twice daily to maximise colour, tannin and fl avour extraction. Cooling is used to ensure ferments remain in the 22-25 degrees Celcius range which will allow the fruit to display maximum fruit expression. Pressing then occurs approximately seven days after crushing and the wine is then put into a mix of French and American oak to mature.
Maturation
12 to 18 months in 40% new American and French hogsheads, with the balance going into 2nd and 3rd fill barrels.
Vintage
2006 Vintage had a mild and long ripening season. These conditions favoured the accumulation of intense colour and fl avours in the Shiraz grapes.
Harvested
April 2006
