This wine has a bouquet of cinnamon and spice with rich berry fruits.
The palate is generous, showing intense sweet fruit characters, silky tannins and integrated oak with good acid to finish.
The grapes for our Balgownie Estate Black Label are sourced from Bendigo, Central Victoria & Yarra Valley. This allows us to represent the very best of each of the regions surrounding our main estate vineyards. The 2009 Shiraz combines the powerful ripe fruit flavours & spice of Central and Weste...
The grapes for our Balgownie Estate Black Label are sourced from Bendigo, Central Victoria & Yarra Valley. This allows us to represent the very best of each of the regions surrounding our main estate vineyards. The 2008 Sparkling Shiraz combines the powerful ripe fruit flavours & spice of Bendigo...
Balgownie Estate Shiraz typically shows a deep red colour and has vibrnt berry fruit aromas and subtle use of oak. The wine is made in a concentrated, yet elegant, medium bodied style with a velvety texture and fine lingering tannins. While approachable in its youth the Balgownie Estate Shiraz ca...
A beautiful Hunter Style Shiraz , With vibrant plum and cherry fruit flavours dominate with a spiciness and sweet oak character. Medium bodied, with a tight acid structure and soft tannins, ensures an elegant wine that is ready to drink, but still retains the capacity to age for a number of year...
When young the typical aromas are of white pepper and eucalyptus and on the palate they show ripe red berry aromas, plums and cherries. The wine spends 12-14 months in a mixture of one to three year old French and American hogsheads and barriques which give the wines a spicy vanillin lift. The 20...
This Shiraz is vibrant and shapely with cool-climate refined elegance. It is densely packed with juicy, precise fruit, a suggestion of spice, integrated oak and fine tannins. It is immediately accessible, but will reward further cellaring for 3 to 5 years.
The key here is the delicacy of fruit and matching restraint of winemaking. Faultless balance and tannin management leave no question marks, as this elegant, velvety wine progresses from black cherry and spicy fruit to subtle roasted coffee bean, and leaves the lips literally tingling from the ex...
Jam packed with black cherry, pepper and toasted anise show with lifted kirsh and cola adding interest.
Medium bodied with delicate dusty tannin a real feature of this wine. The overall soft impression on the mouth and the cream cherry and shaved chocolate make for easy drinking.
Medium plum red with scarlet hues. Strong raspberry and blackberry aromas are complemented by floral perfume and background cedar notes. A fine layer of savoury tannin supports a juicy consistency of bright and fresh red fruit. The well married and playful fruit acid presents as an unbroken crisp...
Dark cherry red colouring with purple hues. Generous blackberry liqueur aromas with subtle and alluring hints of violet, cedar spice and Vanilla. An opulent, full bodied Shiraz with a surrendering depth of flavour. The mouth feel is warm, silky and seductive aided in length by rolling savoury tan...
Deep crimson with purple hues. An intriguing and complementary mix of intense blackcurrant, spicy pepper and dried herb aromas. The bright, rich, though elegant fruit profile of dense plum, blackberry and tamarillo are complimented with subtle French oak flavours and a long line of fine fruit tan...
