2003 Viking Wines "Grand" Shiraz 750mL - 3 Bottle Pack

• Lot ID 14542795
• Cork Closure
• Professionally Cellared
• Alc 15%
• Average Retail price $80 per bottle,
• Lot is PRICED PER PACK of 3

A magnificent 100% Shiraz that offers superb opulent drinking. Totally opaque black dark red colour with very dark red verging on brick red hue. The nose displays excellent intensity with perfumed aromas of liquorice, cassis and dark chocolate overlaid by some leather, vanillin oak and spicy earth nuances. Rich expansive flavours descend upon the palate in opulent fashion flooding the mouth with liquorice and cassis followed by some chocolatey vanillin oak, subtle leather and spice nuances on the back palate. Velvet smooth tannins meld beautifully into the concentrated fruit profile. Superb depth with very long liquorice, cassis, dark chocolate, leather and spicy vanillin oak aftertaste.

Winemaking

This wine is sourced from an old dry grown vineyard with vines dating back to the early 1900’s from what we consider one of the Barossa Valley’s finest blocks. The growing season was near on perfect. An ideal vintage, which gave us the benefit of perfectly, ripened fruit. The smooth flow of vintage allowed us to select specific fruit parcels and allowed us to define the wine as much in the vineyard as the winery. These grapes are brought into the winery, and crushed into old vats where the fermentation is initiated by “wild” yeasts found on the grape skins. Careful extraction and short post fermentation maceration is followed by soft pressing. The wine is transferred into brand new oak barrels where the malolactic fermentation is completed before racking and maturation for a further 24 months in barrels. A careful assemblage and barrel selection is followed by minimal filtration and bottling then further ageing prior to release.