Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2020 - 12 Pack
Celebrate summer and save on a 12-pack of Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2020. Summer Special price: $420. Includes free shipping through 29 February.
(12) 750ml bottles total
HERBS AND SPICE • PLUMS • SOFT TANNINS
Lovely colour, complex nose, and lots of flavour. This was a drought year which produced amazing intensity in the fruit. Structured tannins with soft shoulders make a very dignified wine. The iron fist in a velvet glove! Age 20 years. 750ml.
Accolades
96 points, Halliday Wine Companion
"The colour here is as vibrantly hued as the aromas that waft out of the glass – evident from a foot away. As with the cabernet – this is all things from the Single Vineyard but all things dialled up. Oak. Intensity and voluminous fruit. Gorgeous stuff. Spice and structure."
95 points, The Real Review
95 points, Wine Pilot
Halliday Top 5 Star Winery
Halliday defines top five-stars as "Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity"
Appearance: dark deep purple magenta
Aroma: satsuma plum, dark black cherries, dark chocolate, cedar shavings, violet floral lift, delicate nutmeg oak
Palate: bright rich blue and black forest berry fruits; mulberry and boysenberry with plum and juicy cherry skin; dark chocolate and molasses tones wrapped in firm yet finely powerful tannins; good fresh acid core, framed by complete and seamless tannin with all the elements in fine balance to give great aging potential
A warm, dry year with extreme drought conditions created a tiny crop of small, thick-skinned berries of great intensity, flavour, and structure and an opaquely dark colour. All harvested fruit was of Magpie Hill Reserve quality, no Single Vineyard wine produced.
Selectively harvested in early morning, the fruit was cool when it arrived at the winery. It was destemmed into open top fermenters and allowed to cold soak naturally before the ferment was allowed to proceed, followed by gentle hand-plunging daily. Some post-ferment maceration was done for complexity and structure; and the pressing was gentle, creating a powerful yet silky wine. Aged in 100% French oak (35% new), made up of 50% 300L hogsheads and 50% barriques, for 14 months. Bottled in August 2021. Released in March 2022.
- Vintage 2021
- Alcohol 14.1%
- Vineyard 100% Estate Grown
- Varietal Shiraz
- Bottling date August 2021
- Region Great Southern, Western Australia
- Sub-region Porongurup
- Residual sugar <2 g/l
- pH 3.63
- Acidity 5.3 g/l