Wine Composition
100% Shiraz
Wine Comments
Tyrrell's 2019 Shiraz is a full-bodied and fragrant Shiraz from Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Love the earthiness, ripe red and spicy berry aromas on this medium-plus-bodied red with gravelly, sous bois flavors and mineral undertones. Beautifully balanced with spot-on acidity, elegant with smooth tannins.
Awards
Tom Cannavan | 91pts
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
13.5%
TA
6.45 g/l
pH
3.46
Cellar Techniques
Made to the same high standards that the flagship Vat 9 Shiraz receives. The grapes were picked before fermentation in the open top vats. The wine was then matured in older, large format French oak casks. These 2,700 litre casks highlight the fruit purity whilst making sure that oak isn’t the dominant character.
Winemaker(s)
Name - Andrew Spinaze, Mark Richardson and Chris Tyrrell
Winery
Having been spared the phylloxera epidemic that wiped out the great vineyards of Europe in the 19th century, the Hunter Valley is home to some of the oldest vineyards in the world. Within the boundaries of the region, it boasts some of the most unique pockets of vineyard land in Australia. Bruce Tyrrell has identified a selection of these “sacred sites” for their ability to produce fruit that is “so good and so different” they warrant individual bottling.
These “sacred sites” consist of six blocks (one chardonnay, two semillon, and three shiraz) that are over 100 years old, and still producing and growing on their own roots. These represent some of the rarest vines in the world and they most probably have their origins in the Busby Collection – a selection of some 433 grapevine cuttings from Europe that were originally planted in the Hunter Valley in the 1800s
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