Back to wines

2024 Greenock Shiraz

$45.00

Greenock Shiraz is a single vineyard wine produced from low yielding Shiraz vines on the Kalleske estate at Greenock, in the North-Western Barossa Valley.  Cuttings for these vines originate from a vineyard planted on the property in the late 1800s.  Today, sixth and seventh generation family members meticulously tend the vines.  Traditional winemaking and maturation in American and French oak hogsheads has ensured a complex, full-bodied Shiraz which will reward long term cellaring. The Greenock Shiraz along with Old Vine Grenache were the first wines handcrafted by Troy and Tony in the inaugural Kalleske vintage in 2002.

235 in stock

Colour:
The 2024 Greenock Shiraz is profoundly deep and inky black in colour.

Aroma:
It explodes from the glass with classic dark Shiraz aromatics; rich fruit-cake, ripe plum, layers of sweet and savoury spice, cedar, toasty oak, cocoa powder, treacle and a subtle note of warm earth.

Palate:
The full-bodied palate is immense yet impeccably balanced. Waves of deep, dark fruit saturate the mouth, framed by prominent, finely driven, sleek tannins that provide a powerful but refined backbone. As the tannins gently assert their pleasant dryness, sweet fruits re-emerge, complemented by classy, integrated oak that adds further depth and complexity.
The finish is almost endless, with fruit, oak and tannin in perfect harmony, completing a truly stunning Barossa Shiraz.

Recommended Drinking:
The 2024 is a stellar drink now, yet it possesses the structure and poise to evolve beautifully over the next 10–15+ years into a superbly mature wine.

The “Greenock” block of grapes was harvested on March 13th.  After picking, the grapes were destemmed into open top fermenters.  They were fermented warm with hand pump-overs twice a day for 8 days on skins prior to pressing.  After pressing off skins the wine was filled to a mix of 30% new and the balance used American and French oak hogsheads.  The wine completed primary fermentation and underwent natural malolactic fermentation in barrel.  The wine was matured in barrel for nineteen months prior to bottling.

Vintage 2024 was excellent. Winter and Spring were drier and slightly warmer than average leading to earlier budburst, flowering and veraison. Summer welcomed refreshing rainfall, average temperatures, with no extreme heat, ensuring the vines flourished with their very balanced crop load and apt canopy leading to steady ripening. Autumn began warm and finished mild, continuing the consistent ripening of grapes until harvest was finished in mid-Autumn. The yields are overall average, and the quality is superb.

Moppa is predominantly Shiraz with a trace of Petit Verdot (6%) and Viognier (4%) blended in for added complexity.  Grapes are from ten different blocks on the Kalleske’s organic farm, with the oldest of these blocks planted in 1961.  The vines are low-yielding and are grown in shallow, sandy loam soil over superb deep red clay, providing ideal conditions for these varieties.

Reviews