Availability ||
⮽ ALM Account (Unavailable)
☑ Reilly’s Direct Account ONLY
Vinyards || St Clare Leasingham
Cropping || 1.5 T/per acre
Fermentation || Cold soaked and open fermented prior to fortification on skins.
Maturation || American Oak Hogsheads 12 months.
Spirit || Aged Brandy
Winemakers Notes || Super ripe low yielding shiraz has been fort ed in a aged brandy spirit and matured in American oak hogsheads for 1 year. This rich, luscious wine has vours of blackberry and Christmas pudding and a lingering, velvety mouth feel. Those with the patience to allow further maturation in the bottle with be richly rewarded.
Best Drinking || Now – 2025
Specifications ||
Alcohol: 19.0%
TA: 5.74/L
pH: 3.62
RS: 101g/L
Size: 750ml
Case QTY: 12
Serving Suggestions || Enjoy now or be richly rewarded with further cellaring to 2025.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
V13 //
GOLD MEDAL ~ Clare Valley Wine Show 2023
GOLD MEDAL ~ Clare Valley Wine Show 2022
TROPHY & GOLD MEDAL ~ Best Fortified Wine of Show at Clare Valley Wine Show 2015
GOLD MEDAL & TOP FORTIFIED SHIRAZ IN SHOW ~ Clare Valley Wine Show 2014
95 POINTS, James Halliday, www.winecompanion.com.au
“…Very powerful and complex, and the fermentation cut by fortification at exactly the right moment, with a luscious array of spiced black fruits running through the long, evenly balanced palate.”
PROVENANCE AWARDS & ACCOLADES
V08 //
94 POINTS, James Halliday, www.winecompanion.com.au
“Dense blackish colour; a well-made and well-balanced vintage port-style; the fruit is spicy and deep with black cherry flavours together with spice and licorice…”
V06 //
The Adelaide Review Hot 100 South Australian Wines 2009/10
“Reilly’s offered us a luscious Shiraz based on super-ripe fruit given a 15-month stint in American oak after fortification. ‘Bucketloads of blackberry, spicy aniseed, and fennel’ for Louise; ‘simple and luscious’ for Pete; ‘tangy length and breadth’ for Andrew.”
BRONZE MEDAL – 2008 Clare Valley Wine Show
