Bleasdale Shiraz 2004 90 pts - Robert Parker, Jr. Wine Advocate #168: Fabulous buy, offering classic Shiraz characteristics of blackberries, tar, and white flowers.

Tasting Notes

Winemaker’s Tasting Notes: Youthful, lively Shiraz wine with lots of blackberries and spices along with a smooth palate of soft tannins.

Food Accompaniments

Medium – Rare rack of lamb with mint sauce.

Awards, Reviews and other Notes

90 pts Robert Parker, Jr. - Wine Advocate #168
The outstanding 2004 Shiraz Bremerview Vineyard is a fabulous buy, offering classic Shiraz characteristics of blackberries, tar, and white flowers. Aged in neutral 300 liter American oak hogsheads for 12 months, it possesses abundant fruit, glycerin, alcohol (14.5%), and texture along with a hint of earth.

Winemaker Notes

Viticultural practices:
Yields per acre: 4.0 tonnes
Cases produced: 8,000 dozen
Appellation: Langhorne Creek
Filtration and fining: Light egg white fining pre-bottling. Polishing grade filter into bottle.
Varietal composition: Shiraz 100%
Wood treatment: New – 3 year old American oak 300L Hogsheads
Length of barrel maturation: 12 months
Winemaker's notes: - Machine picked fruit, 6 day ferment on skins, pumped over twice daily for 30 minutes.
- Malolactic fermentation undertaken.
- Blended and oak matured for 12 months.
- Bottled.

Chemical Analysis

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Alcohol: 14.5 %
pH: 3.45
Total Acid: 7.0
Residual Sugar: 1.8
Free/Total Sulfur: 22 F 75 T

$16.99

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Shiraz