Vintage
2019
ABV
14.5%
AUD$ FOB / 9L Case
$100.00 – $149.99
Wine Type
Red
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
Ernest Allan Rivers was a market gardener and vigneron; he was also the grandfather of Melissa Brown, Gemtree proprietor and biodynamic viticulturist. Ernest Allan Shiraz is a wine that celebrates and validates the relationship between the earth and the vine.
Accolades
Global Organic Masters | MASTER
Wow, intense nose, masses of pure intense ripe black berry and cherry fruit, then coconut and vanilla oak notes, with touch of wood shaving. Enticing. Serious. Youthful.
Palate does not disappoint. Amazing hit of ripe, soft, juicy, pure berry fruit, raspberry, blackberry, black cherry, so intense and juicy, but not overripe – nothing raising or baked. Then coconut, wood shaving, cedar – signs of fine barrels and lots of new oak, on long finish, with some plum and freshness, spice, cracked black pepper and then fine dry tannin. Wonderful wine. In its youth. Needs time. Lots of tannin. But wonderful fruit and layers of flavour now. This is a fantastic find.
Winemaker's Bio
Mike Brown is the managing director of Gemtree, where he does everything from making the wine to wearing out the shoe leather (in a normal year) during his travels from Queenstown to Quebec, sharing the stories of his McLaren Vale wines.
Originally from NSW, Mike undertook a vintage in SA in the early 1990s, shortly thereafter leaving Sydney and his job at the stock exchange to study wine marketing, gaining valuable insights into wineries and winemaking. However, it was the smells, tastes and activity within the cellar that Mike really loved. After working many vintages in wineries around McLaren Vale and France, in 1998 Mike completed his first vintage as a winemaker at Gemtree.
