De Bortoli Winemaker Selection Shiraz

VARIETY

Shiraz

REGION

South Eastern Australia

WINEMAKER

Roberto Delgado

SEASON

Late spring rains allowed the vines to prosper following a relatively dry winter. Average yields allowing good varietal flavours to develop throughout the vineyards.

TASTING NOTE

Deep garnet appearance. Fragrant aromas of red and blue fruits, choc and spice. The generous palate has raspberry and blueberry fruits, spice with a supple tannin finish.

WINE STYLE

A multi regional medium bodied dry red to savour with beef wellington, a gourmet pizza or slow cooked pork.

WINEMAKING

Harvested when ideal tannin and fruit ripeness achieved. Gentle destemming into static fermentation vats followed by 7-8 day fermentation at 25ºC to extract maximum flavour and colour. The wine was then put through maturation for 3 months with a combination of American and French oak.

WINE ANALYSIS

Alc/Vol: 14.0%, pH: 3.69, TA: 6.4g/L

CELLARING

This wine is ready to enjoy now and has cellaring potential for the next 2-3 years

AWARDS

2021 Cairns Wine Show - Gold Medal
2020 Riverina Open Wine Show - Gold Medal
2020 The Drinks Business - The Global Syrah Masters - Gold Medal
2020 Royal Adelaide Wine Show - Silver Medal
2020 Great Australian Shiraz Challenge - Bronze Medal
2020 Perth Wine Show - Bronze Medal
2020 The Asian Syrah Masters - Bronze Medal