A glass-coating opaque purple, it features first-class aromas of spice box, cedar, mocha, lavender, and blueberry. Velvety-textured, fruit-driven, and intense, the wine has excellent depth of flavor and a long finish.

The 2007 vintage was proceeded by very dry conditions through the winter months resulting in very little sub soil moisture combining with some of the worst frost conditions through the early spring meant the vines self regulated to deliver a lower than average crop. The fine harvest condition meant Shiraz picking started in the last week in Februrary and proceeded without problems through to late March.

Review

"Big burly with a meaty, beefy nature this wine is like a classic Barossa Shiraz with a steroid injection."

Technical notes

VINTAGE: 2007 REGION(S) OF FRUIT SOURCE: 85% Barossa Valley, 15% Langhorne Creek TRELLIS: Single and double wire spur pruned SOIL: Red/brown earth over clay through to alluvial flood plains VARIETAL BLEND: 100% Shiraz WINEMAKER(S): R winemaking team ALC/VOL: 14.5% AGE OF VINES: 10-50 years old YIELD PER ACRE: 2-4 tons WOOD TREATMENT: 60% two and three old American hogshead

Food pairing

Shiraz is great for grilled meats or veggies, wild game, richly flavored red meats, beef stew and meat lover's pizza.

Producer

Based in Australia, R Wines produces wine from vineyards all over Australia including Riesling from Western Australia, Pinot Noir from Victoria, Shiraz from McLaren Vale and the Barossa just to name a few. R Wines was founded in 2005 by partners Dan Philips, and Chris Ringland. Chris is one of world’s leading and most gifted winemakers. He leads teams of winemakers and viticulturalists managing vineyards Australia wide. R Wines that make it to the shelf are not merely sound and well-made, but are stylish, compelling, hand-crafted and peerlessly delicious. We believe that what goes on the bottle is as important as what goes in the bottle and work with world-class designers to create innovative, loud, brilliant labels that speak to consumers in ways unique to the wine world.