Vintage
2019
ABV
14.5%
AUD$ FOB / 9L Case
Above $200.00
Wine Type
Red
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
Hand picked from our Old Block (planted 1948, clone unknown- we call it ‘Olivers Old’ locally) on the 28th of March, and our Rayments Block (1654 Clone, planted 1996) on the 24th of March. Machine destemmed and berry sorted with a light crushing. All cold soaked for 3 days at 5-8 deg C. Vinified in open fermenters, indigenous yeasts, no sulfur, tannin or acid additions. Press off at 1be and malo in barrel. All French hogsheads- 35% new. Sulfur post malo, couple of rackings, blended & bottled without fining in September 2019. 1021 six packs made.
HJ Oliver is Herbert John Oliver. 4th generation of our family to run the property and my grandfather. He pulled out the original vines (almost 100 years old when he did), took cuttings and replanted our Old Block in 1948. We haven’t quite forgiven him! But luckily he replanted, so now we are lucky to have the Old block producing wonderful intense old vine shiraz.
Accolades
98 points James Halliday
Langtons Classified - Excellent
Winemaker's Bio
Corrina Wright has wine – and 171 years of family grape growing – flowing through her veins. Described by WBM Magazine as a “legend in the making” and by James Halliday as being part of a “remarkable dynasty”, Corrina was awarded the 2019 Australian Society of Viticulture & Oenology Winemaker of the Year by her peers.
She has been on the boards of Australian Grape and Wine, McLaren Vale Grape Wine & Tourism, Family Business Australia- SA, Australian Society of Viticulture & Oenology, and currently sits on the Australian Wine Research Institute board. A fierce advocate for women in the wine community she is a member of the Australian Women in Wine Awards advisory board. Corrina judges at many wine shows, is a graduate of the prestigious Len Evans Tutorial, and of the Future Leaders for the Australian Wine Industry graduate.
