Lot # 1622
Sun 22 Dec 2024, 9 PM AEST
wendouree
WENDOUREE Shiraz, Clare Valley 2008 Bottle
1 * Bottle
About this wine
A spectacularly individual wine, Wendouree Shiraz typically possesses a core of blackberry/ black olive aromas with complex iodine, wet bitumen, animal hide characters. The low-yielding beautifully formed old Shiraz vines, tortured and serpentine (many from the original plantings), are unique, producing small berries with thick skins and a very high seed content. The fruit is vinified in stainless steel lined open fermenters. Maturation takes place in roughly 20% new oak for around a year. Although there is clarity and buoyancy of fruit on the palate, the tannins are rusty and vice-like. It has been described as "an iron fist in velvet glove" type wine. Bottled under screw cap from the 2009 vintage.
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Wine Details
Variety/Varieties
Shiraz
Vintage
2008
Classification and Scores
Classification
First Classified
Taste Profile
Style
Red Wine
Winery and Region
Country
Australia
Region
Clare Valley
State / Province
South Australia
Delivery and Returns
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ABOUT THE WINERY
Wendouree
Wendouree is a great small Australian producer with an important cultural and historical identity. The unirrigated vineyards were first planted in 1893 on the easterly ridge towards the northern end of Clare. Much of the original vineyard, winery and even some of the original winemaking equipment, are still in service. Roly Birks, who put up his winemaking boots after 60 vintages, continued winemaking at Wendouree until 1983. Lita and Tony Brady, now veteran winemakers of nearly forty vintages, purchased the venerable property in 1974. The Wendouree style is strongly recognisable with an emphasis on fruit power, concentration and weight. Although best known for Shiraz, Wendouree also produces spellbindingly good, but idiosyncratic, Shiraz Malbec, Shiraz Mataro, Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon.
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