Longhop Shiraz 2015
$1599each
$191DOZEN
WineryOld Plains
Fruit Shiraz
Regions Adelaide Plains
  South Australia
Each $15.99
$191.00
Currently out of stock
Adelaide Plains Shiraz, and what great wine it makes, graceful, generous and stylishly balanced. The vineyards speak in the final wine, every expression from the intensely flavoured grapes, picked off vines, fifty years of age, is captured and retained. Earthern ironstone and quartz laced textures of the foothills and north ranges, smooth ferments and fine colour, lively peppery notes are indicative of old vines fruit. The inaugural vintage of Longhop Shiraz was a sellout and runaway success after being the subject of ecstatic praise from industry press.
Longhop is a robust style in every sense, distinctive, vinous, full bodied and complex. Shiraz is sourced off a selection of vineyards across the Adelaide Plains and Mt Lofty Ranges, much of the harvest off vines fifty years of age, each bringing its own expression of mesoclime and personality to the finished wine. Components are treated to a partially wild yeast, whole berry ferment in small open top vessels with soft pump overs and minimal plunging, before being treated to an old fashioned basket press and completing ferments in barrel. The finished wine is matured eighteen months in a selection of seasoned French and American oak barriques and hogsheads before an unfiltered bottling. Alcohol 14.5%
TASTING NOTES
Dark, deeply coloured. Aromatic ark cherries and spice, chocolate and plums. Heady fresh red berries and spice flow on to the palate, pepper notes against a background of earthy, ripe raspberries and cherry emerge with air. Flavours follow through with lots of intensity and bountiful ripeness to cap off the long savouryness, finishing with a close of persistent, juicy fine tannin.
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About the Old Plains Winery
The challenge began when it was decided to fashion hand made wines from precious fruit grown to superlative sites which escaped the vine pull of the 1980s
The Longhop and Old Plains range of wines are produced by Domenic Torzi and Tim Freeland. The former Gawler high school mates first mooted the idea of making icon wines from the Adelaide Plains in 2002. Vineyards were secured, the requirement being old vines a priority. The small band of growers have embraced the ideal of delivering premium grapes in order to showcase the power and rich fruit flavours the Adelaide Plains has to offer. Old Plains»