2017 Blue Pyrenees Estate Section 25 Shiraz

Bright ruby red colour. Fragrant ripe blueberry fruit aroma’s plus vanilla, pepper, mushroom and char. Licorice and dense dark blue and purple fruits intermingled with toasty oak, precede a long lasting, blueberry, cracked black pepper and spicy tannin finish. The medium weight but firm structure and fruit vibrancy of this wine ensure it has many possible food matches.

The grapes are sourced from a single block- Section 25, in the Estate vineyard. Shiraz with a small amount of Viognier were co-fermented to dryness in open and closed fermenters before gentle pressing to extract all the colour, flavour and natural tannin from the skins. After pressing the wine is racked to barrels, new to four year old French and American oak barriques for secondary fermentation & 24 months maturation before final barrel selection, blending of those barrels, and a light egg white fining before bottling.