Shaw + Smith Balhannah Vineyard Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2017

Shaw + Smith Balhannah Vineyard Adelaide Hills Shiraz 

Region: Adelaide Hills, Australia

Vintage: 2017

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Shiraz

ABV: 14.5%

This is a medium-bodied, well-balanced Shiraz, typical of the cool-climate Shaw + Smith style. It has intense flavours of dark fruits and firm tannins on the palate.

The distinctive Balhannah site was planted in 2005, at 340 to 380 metres above sea level. It has always shown potential for a single site wine, and in 2013 the team made their first release from the close-planted vines (5,500 vines per hectare). Low yields are achieved by aggressive pruning and pre-harvest bunch thinning. The vineyard has a north-facing aspect and the soils are loam over clay, ironstone, quartzite, and shale.

Shaw + Smith began over a long lunch in 1989 when cousins Martin Shaw and Michael Hill Smith decided to realise a long-held dream to make wine together. Their vision remains to make exciting, refined wines, exclusively from the Adelaide Hills, that rank among Australia’s best. The wines are made from a number of sites throughout the Adelaide Hills.

https://www.shawandsmith.com