Personalised Shaw + Smith Shiraz 2021 14% 750ml

Personalised Shaw + Smith Shiraz 2021 14%  750ml

Shaw + Smith is an alliance between cousins Martin Shaw and Michael Hill-Smith. Their aim is to make contemporary, high quality wines that are outstanding examples of their type made from grapes grown in the Adelaide Hills.

Shaw + Smith specialise in grape varieties suited to the cooler climate of the Adelaide Hills, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay & Shiraz.

The vineyard is located on a 28 ha property planted at Woodside Vineyard with new plantings of Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling and Pinot Noir at Balhannah.

AROMA
Violets on the nose, with red cherries, satsuma plums, roasted hazelnuts.

PALATE
Medium bodied, with soft tannins that close the deal.

FOOD MATCHING
Decant and enjoy with slow cooked lamb shoulder.

VINIFICATION
Hand-picked, then either destemmed and fermented as whole berries, or fermented as whole bunches with stems. We like gentle handling and long ferments so the tannins are fine, and the perfume of cool climate Shiraz is not lost. Matured in mainly older French oak.

VINTAGE NOTES
The growing season for 2021 was terrific, a joy after the traumas of 2020. Soaking winter rains gave us plenty of moisture in the soil, and that flowed into healthy crops. The summer was mild and slow ripening giving lots of flavour.

CELLARING POTENTIAL
Has the concentration and structure to develop fine tertiary characters in bottle over the next 15 years.