Mitchelton Print Shiraz 2006 75cl

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  • Colour

    Red

  • Vintage

    2006

  • Producer

    Mitchelton

  • Country

    AUSTRALIA

  • Region

    VICTORIA

  • Sub Region

    CENTRAL VICTORIA

  • Alcohol

    14%

  • Product code

    14MIT9B2006

  • Availability

    9 cases

  • Grape Variety

    100% Shiraz


Tasting Notes

Deep brooding garnet colour, an aroma of red currant, Christmas pudding, kirsch, mocha and cocoa. Rich, opulent fruit marries with cinnamon, nutmeg and aniseed spice on the palate - all framed by a structure of smooth textured tannins.

Vinification Details.

Temperature controlled submerged cap fermentation in potters and small open fermenters. Shiraz batches spend a total of 14-20 days on skins depending on tannin development . Immediately following pressing the wines are pumped to barrel to complete malolactic fermentation and mature for 18 months in a selection of 40% new french predominately from three different cooperages. The wines stay on lees for the entire duration and are not racked to preserve freshness in the wines. All parcels are then individually barrel selected in blind tasting , blended and fi ltered on the way to bottling.

Producer Information

Located in central Victoria, Mitchelton's first vines were planted in the early 1970s after Australian wine industry legend Colin Preece identified an old patch of grazing land known as Blackwood Park as having great winemaking potential. Not only had the land never seen vines before but the company's decision to focus on Rhone varietals - including whites like Marsanne and Viognier - was almost unheard of at the time. This pioneering spirit continues to this day with new winemaker Ben Haines at the controls.


Regional info.

The Print Shiraz was sourced predominantly from the ‘old faithful' Crescent and D Blocks on the Mitchelton Estate. The Crescent Block was formed when an old prior steam or ancestral course of the Goulburn River was an active and fast fl owing juvenile river in a wetter climatic phase. The Crescent Block is uniquely located on the inside of a vast sweeping river meander giving the block its shape and hence its name. The river has long since changed courses but has left the remnants of a stranded sandbar consisting of fi ne to coarse washed river sands that extend to great depths. D Block, is located on a higher plateau comprising of the oldest soils on the estate formed 100 thousand years ago through the deposition of sand, silt and clay from high impact flooding events. Natural wetting and drying cycles have 'rusted' or oxidised the iron in the soil to form a distinct ochre red colour in the subsoil. The old shiraz vines from each of these blocks receive little supplementary water so they drive their gnarled roots deep down through the sandy soil layers in search of moisture.

More information

classification apellation

Victoria

residual sugar

0.19g/l

total acidity

6.68g/l

wine ph

3.4



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