Appearance: Vibrant red/purple colour with a crimson hue.
Bouquet: A fragrant red and black fruit bouquet with delicate oak in the background.
Palate: This generous wine displays spicy black fruit flavours with refreshing cherry cola characters dancing on the luscious medium bodied palate. The tannins are in complete harmony with the fruit.
Cellaring: Drinking well now or will further develop with medium term cellaring, 5 -7 years.
The Brokenback Vineyard, Pokolbin, was planted in the 1970's by a visionary group led by the late, legendary, Len Evans, AO, OBE. Over the ensuing years the vines have produced premium wines under a variety of labels. In 2008 the vineyard then in two parts, was purchased privately and amalgamated.
Our Brokenback Shiraz is a rich and flavoursome wine and a classic in our range. Typical of this vineyard, the wine displays pepper, spice and layers of ripe red berry fruit flavours. With a refined tannin structure and subtle French oak characters, the seamless palate is complex and persistent.
Cellaring : Drinking well now or gain rewarding bottle age complexity with careful cellaring up to 10 years.
A winemaker selection of either the western or eastern blocks across the estate’s
holdings that is is increasingly and inevitably, I am told, from the eastern
side.
With the shading and attenuated ripening pattern, justifiably so. The result
compacts a density of dark to mulberry fruit scents, with a leafy freshness
embedded across a sinewy, firm tannic fiber.
Far more structured and
authoritative than the other blocks due to tighter packed, compact grapes. This
higher quotient of skin to liquid ratio imparts a full-bodied textural
intrigue. Almost Italianate in its dry, structural pose. Savoury and inimitably
Hunter.
