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Somewhere near the Seaview end of McLaren Vale's Chapel Hill Road, a perfunctory passerine perched her pincers astride a pair of power poles and saw herself alit. Down she went amongst the dry grown branches of an old Grenache vineyard, setting the valuable veterans ablaze. The scorched site eventually came to the attention of a winemaking trio, the Messrs Leske, Tynan & Cooke, Masters of Wine and a venerable vintner, all driven by a consuming passion to make greater Grenache. Thistledown vintage very small amounts of the most extraordinary Grenache. Beautifully detailed and conspicuously elegant, their floral bouquets and graceful finish emulate the aromatic lift and peacock's tail of a prettily.. Polly & the pyre to paradise»
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Hanwood Estate Shiraz Viognier 2005 CONFIRM 2005 VINTAGE

Hanwood Estate Shiraz Viognier 2005 - Buy
Shiraz Viognier Durif New South Wales
A solidly fruit focused, complex Shiraz Viognier, with a tot of Durif providing Je Ne Sais Quoi. Dry, arid conditions prevailed around southeast Australia's winegrowing regions, yet below average temperatures were experienced – very similar to the conditions of the classic 2002 vintage. The result was a refined and delicately flavoured Shiraz Viognier, with amazing depth of flavour and virility. 27.6% Hilltops, 25.7% Limestone Coast, 12.9% Heathcote, 11.4% Orange, 7.8% Riverina, 6.1% Barossa Valley, 3.1% Eden Valley, 3.1% Fleurieu, 2.3% Yarra Valley.

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92.6 per cent Shiraz, 5%7 per cent Viognier, 1.7 per cent Durif. The fruit was fermented in a mixture of static and open top fermenters, for six days on skins. They wine was headed down up to eight times a day to extract the greatest colour and fruit flavours. The gentle method of draining and returning twice daily was undertaken to assist in colour and flavour development, and impart a soft tannin influence to the wine. After pressing, approximately 60 per cent of the wine finished fermentation in contact with oak staves and a portion (20 per cent) transferred to one to three year old French and American oak barrels for up to nine months maturation. Alcohol 13.5% PH 3.5 Acidity 6.5g/L.
Colour is a crimson red, with purple hues. Black plums, white pepper and lifted violets combine with hints of apricot and grapefruit from the Viognier. Plum fruit flavours and black spice dominate the palate. Rosewood-like tannins, huge on flavours, blackberry and tar, blueberry and earth, sweet acony leather and mild gumleaf. A bit of raw cocoa, wet slippery nutella and strawberry-like characters, well integrated oak and lifted white pepper nuances complement the soft, juicy finish. A hugely successfull food wine, that holds it's own and would bring great enjoyment to complicated faire like Moroccan lamb with cous cous. Drinking well now or can be cellared carefully for up to two more years.
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Hanwood Estate
Plant a six-inch nail in this soil, water it and in a year you will have a crowbar

So said John James McWilliam when he arrived in Hanwood in 1913. The development of the Riverina region as a major wine producing area was primarily due to the foresight of the McWilliam family. The Riverina, and Hanwood in particular, was an area John James McWilliam the son of McWilliam's founder, Samuel McWilliam had identified earlier as having the potential to service the growing domestic and export wine markets.

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In 1913, John James McWilliam planted the first vines at Hanwood, just 8kms south of the thriving agricultural town of Griffith in New South Wales; and in 1917 he established McWilliam's Hanwood winery. Today, this same winery is a large modern facility, one of the largest in the region - with an average crush of 18,000 tonnes and a storage capacity of more than 22 million litres.

Not only was he responsible for the trial of premium varieties previously unknown in the district, he was also responsible for leading the way in developing the winery technology necessary to produce table wines in a hot summer climate. Just as John James led the way in 1913, so it was Glen McWilliam that pioneered the region's move into table wines during the mid-1950s.

The Riverina is today credited with producing more than two-thirds of New South Wales wine and almost one-quarter of Australia's total wine production. The constant, even rainfall, rich and fertile soil and warm temperatures during the ripening season make the Riverina ideally suited to viticulture.

Hanwood Estate

McWilliam's Hanwood Estate - one of Australia's leading premium quality wine ranges, is a blend of high quality fruit from a range of vineyard sites within South Eastern Australia. McWilliam's Hanwood Chardonnay is one of the most consistently awarded white wines at its price point and arguably the fastest growing Chardonnay in the domestic market.

Fruit is predominantly sourced from the Riverina and Hilltops regions in New South Wales, the Yarra Valley in Victoria, and Coonawarra in South Australia. The diverse fruit supply provides the winemaking team with a broader range of blending options and enables them to produce a range of wines that are high in quality and consistent in style from one year to the next.

McWilliam's Hanwood winery is distinguished by its barrel-shaped cellar door tasting room and the large array of old bottles and winery memorabilia displayed in a 17 metre-long museum in the shape of a bottle. McWilliam's range of red, white and fortified wines, as well as limited-release Cellar Door only wines, are available for tasting at McWilliam's Hanwood Cellar Door.

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