Vintage
2021
ABV
14.5%
Wine Type
Red
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
This wine was made with fruit hand-picked from the oldest dry-grown Shiraz vines at our White Hut vineyard in the Clare Valley. It is dense purple/black in the glass and displays a complex, perfumed nose of dense blackberry and blood plum fruit, rich dark chocolate notes and hints of crushed violets and star anise. The palate is plush and full with opulent forest fruit flavours overlaying supporting vanilla, mocha and liquorice characters. Plush but powerful, velvety tannins and fine acidity support the fruit and give the wine great power and drive, and will allow it a long life in the cellar.
Winemaker's Bio
As Winemaker Adam Barton tells it, he first discovered the magic of wine while working in the Hunter Valley, in a glass of 1965 Lindemans Hunter River Burgundy. After studying Oenology at the University of Adelaide, he embarked on a winemaking career that so far spans two decades and three continents, with work in McLaren Vale, Coonawarra, the Barossa Valley, Western Australia, the south of France and California’s Central Coast.
Adam’s winemaking approach for Atlas Wines is typified by careful curation and nurturing of the highest-quality grapes, the utmost care and attention to detail, and minimal intervention.