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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.

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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.

The Site

Located 2km South of the town of Greenock. The block is North facing on a gentle slope. It is 250-265m in elevation and is slightly warmer than the Kalleske Moppa vineyards.

The Soil
Greenock soil is distinctive red loam over deep red clay with prominent limestone, fragments of ironstone and some quartz.

​The Vines
Greenock is a block planted 27 years ago from cuttings taken from a selection of old vineyards on the main Kalleske estate at Moppa including the 1875, 1905 and 1961 Shiraz vineyards. Vines are hand-pruned to a single wire. Typical yields of around 1.5-2.0t/acre.

The Characteristics
Greenock Shiraz grapes produce very strong wines. The wine is darker aromatically (plums, chocolate, blackberry) with a richer and more full-bodied palate. Tannins are bigger and chunkier adding a more muscular structure in comparison to the Shiraz vineyard at Moppa.

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