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Jammy Monkey Shiraz
The Shiraz for Jammy Monkey is harvested in the cool of night from ancient soils in Victoria. In the winery a gentle fermentation is followed by a short barrel ageing before bottling.
The wine is smooth with wonderful plum and mulberry character with trademark Shiraz hints of sweet spice. Enjoy with BBQ’d food or as an all round crowd pleaser.
Pete’s Pure Shiraz
Pete’s Pure is meant to be consumed fresh and young – drinkability and simplicity. But the real star here is sunshine; hailing from Euston in New South Wales, from an area known for volume, the clear skies and red earth produce clean, bright flavours. This abundance of sun makes growing grapes stress-free. Picked early with minimal winemaking artefact to keep things crisp, these wines are relaxed, clean and charming.
Packed full of mulberry and blackberry with hints of forest floor and a distinctive sarsaparilla herbal note. A dash of vanilla spice and dusty oak adds a more mature angle to this young energetic Shiraz.
Samurai Shiraz Free Run Juice
Free Run Juice are a cooperative in Australia, falling under the umbrella of one of the biggest and most highly regarded family-owned winery in the Southern Hemisphere, Yalumba Wine Company. Sourcing fruit from regions known for their quality, the focus is on minimal intervention and organic farming methods.
The grapes for the Samurai Shiraz are picked earlier in the season to retain a freshness assisted by a lack oak. Full of red and black fruit, easy drinking, low sulphur wine that is screaming for PIZZAAAAAAAA!!
Roger Sabon Le Sabounet
Great Rhone Valley wine from a fantastic Chateauneuf-du-Pape producer.
The Opportunist Shiraz
Wild & Wilder were founded by Master of Wine duo Fergal Tynan and Giles Cooke, with Giles also being the winemaker. Both men have worked extensively around the world learning their craft including time in Europe, North and South America before settling in Southern Australia. The duo work with several growers across various regions to hand craft outstandingly good wines at their Adelade Hills winery that are seriously well made, bags of fun and extremely drinkable.
An aromatic bouquet of ripe fruits, cherries and blackcurrants, with notes of freshly ground coffee, dark chocolate, peppermint, liquorice and subtle pepper. The wine has also been matured for 8 months in oak for added texture and complexity. Aussie winemaking at it’s big, bold best.
Pair with barbequed foods (obviously!) cured meats and cheeses or pan fried prawns in garlic butter and fresh chilli.
The Idiot Shiraz
The Idiot is dark garnet with a purple hue. This cool climate Shiraz is true to its region and variety. It has a fragrant bouquet with juicy red fruits and blueberry. The palate is succulent yet elegant. It has bountiful fruit and spice finishing with fine savoury tannins.
Kaesler Stonehorse GSM
The Kaelsler family planted their first vines in 1893 and to this day the vines are made from these ancient, dry grown vineyards.
This is a blend of Grenache (66%) Shiraz (28%) and Mouvedre (6%) matured in four year old French oak barrels for fifteen months. Notes of candied strawberry, raspberry and blueberries with fresh violet florals on the nose and dark fruits; blackberry, blueberry, baked plum and rhubarb on the palate. This excellent wine has firm tannins and well balanced acidity for a long lingering finish. Absolutely delicious.
Are you a fan of French Rhone Valley wines? Try this; this ‘GSM’ blend is the same as Cotes du Rhone.
Pair with roasted red meats and charcuterie.
Blank Bottle Little William
Another great wine from Blank Bottle Winery with another great story behind it. This is made from ungrafted shiraz grapes from a quite unusual part of the Western Cape. Very high altitude vines, Pieter himself, claims this shiraz is more elegant and fine, more like Pinot Noir which is why he’s bottled it in this tall, slim bottle. From a tiny vineyard, only 600 bottles of this vintage were produced. The name and label comes from a time when he was driving back from the vineyard, on the phone to his wife and just around a blind corner, he spots something in the middle of the road. Slamming on the brakes, he finds it is a little boy in just a white nappy stood on the white line on the road. He ends up walking over a bridge with this little boy to a farmhouse where a woman comes out screaming ‘William’, mother and son reunited, good deed done! A few years later, he’s in hospital with his son and somehow gets chatting to a woman who ends up being the sister in law to the mother of ‘Little William’.