Kellermeister Dry Grown Shiraz 2008
$2999each
$359DOZEN
WineryKellermeister
Fruit Shiraz
Regions Barossa
  South Australia
Each $29.99
$359.00
Currently out of stock
A big Shiraz wine from from fruit grown to some of the oldest Barossa vineyards, tended by a number of dedicated growers. Contributing sites in the Hoffnungsthal Valley at the Barossa's south are characterized by low fertility, grey brown loam soils over clay. Ebenezer is blessed by richer, ferrous, red sandy loam over clay soils. The final wine displays spicy peppery aromas and luscious berry flavours balanced by toasty new oak aromatics. Velvety and voluptuous with rich tannin, it complements the finest faire. Classic Barossa Shiraz the Kellermeister way.
Contributing sites in the Eden Valley are marked by grey to brown loamy sands and subsoils derived from weathered schist rock. Fruit is hand picked, destemmed and crushed, inoculated with Prisse de Mousse yeast, chilled and held cold for two or three days in headed down 4.5t fermenters. Vinification begins and is maintained below 25C rising to 30C towards the end, during which aerobic pumpovers occur thrice daily for several days before the fermented must is pressed off at 0%5 to 1 Beaume. The wine is racked to hogsheads for completion of malolactic, racked again and matured for thirty months in Troncais, Troncais/ Jupilles and Nevers French oak hogsheads. Alcohol 14.9%
TASTING NOTES
Dark crimson red hue. Black fruit aromas of dark cherry, black diamond plum, mulberry, dark bitter chocolate, aniseed and briar, complex savoury characters and lifted smoky cedar oak. A full bodied wine with an even weighted palate. Very fine and firm chewy tannins, the integrated acid provides structure, length and persistence.
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About Kellermeister Winery
Kellermeister is a small family owned winery situated on the Barossa Valley Highway at Lyndoch, established in 1979 by Ralph and Val Jones
Ralph was National Marketing manager at Orlando wines for fifteen years prior to founding his own estate. Kellermeister have been handcrafting wines at their boutique winery for a long time now. It all began in the late 1970s as Ralph and Val Jones sat with gum boots on, ankle deep in water, labouring tirelessly into the night together. Over many cold winter’s nights, in a small tin shed perched above the valley floor, they laboured - kept warm only by the glow of the love they shared and the fire that was their dream for Kellermeister. Their aim was to produce wines of unique character - wines true to the German traditions of the Barossa Valley which was so richly influenced by the Silesian settlements of the 1840s. And so it was, through much love, sacrifice and hard work that Ralph and Val Jones brought their dream to life. Kellermeister»