Vintage
2021
ABV
14.5%
Wine Type
Red
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
Our founder & winemaker Elena Brooks crowned Colin Kroehn’s Eden Valley Shiraz Vineyard as our Red Queen whose age, altitude, aspect and slope are key. Colin tended his beloved Shiraz for almost all of his 90 years and our Red Queen is made entirely from his vineyard. Planted in 1912, on a south facing slope of limestone bed rock
with loamy sands absolutely laden with quartzite, the vineyards survives to this day. The rocky outcrops of quartz are spectacularly coloured with ironstone streaks, and sit over a c.1600
million year old Barossa Complex basement of gneiss and schist.
Elena’s 14th vintage of Red Queen was hand harvested & sorted on April 20th, partially crushed gently to ferment ambiently & openly for 10 days, thrice plunged by hand, before basket pressing into half new & half one year old French Oak Barriques to finish fermentation. Two and a half years maturation and a racking in the same oak, unfined or filtered capturing Elena’s Red Queen to reward cellaring and decanting. Thank you to Mr. Kroehn & family.
Accolades
• Global Syrah Masters 2023 Masters Medal
• The Real Review, Stuart Knox (28th Dec 2023) – 98 Points, Gold Medal, #1 of 17 2021 Shiraz from Eden Valley
• Halliday Wine Companion, Dave Brooks (June 2024) – 96 Points, Gold
• 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards – Gold 95 Points
• 2023 Sommelier Challenge IWSC San Diego – Gold 90 Points
• Melbourne International Wine Competition 2023 – Gold Medal 94 Pts
• Woman Wine & Spirit Awards 2024- Gold Medal
• Sakura Japan Woman’s Wine Awards 2024- Gold
