Out Of The Bottle
With
David Ellis
Deakin Estate's 2010 Shiraz & Shaw Vineyard Estate 2011 Riesling
Although its just $10 a bottle, Deakin Estate’s 2010 Shiraz is a
wine you can easily put on the table with a meal to impress – things
like oven-baked rack of lamb, or a hearty beef and Guinness pie come
quickly to mind.
Made from fruit from the company’s vineyards in
the Murray Darling region of North West Victoria, it’s a wine whose
deep and vibrant red colour not only looks good, it tastes good too.
Winemaker
Phil Spillman aged separate parcels of the wine in American and French
oak barrels, then brought them together for the resultant blend: rich
blueberry characters are to the fore with medium tannins and a
lingering finish.
With its $10 price-tag its worth considering
by the case, particularly as its showing plenty of potential to cellar
well through until 2016 or so; or enjoy now with that rack of lamb,
beef and Guinness pie or even aged sirloin topped with a chimichurri
sauce.
One For Lunch
Even though he has planted just 34-hectares of their 280-hectare
fine wool property to grapes, Graeme Shaw and his family have produced
some ripper wines from their Shaw Vineyard Estate at Murrumbateman just
to the north of Canberra.
One of their latest is their 2011
Riesling, a wine that shows how Riesling can enjoy life to the full in
a cool climate like that around Canberra: this one’s got lovely
tropical fruit aromas and a palate of passionfruit and limes, and with
Riesling being one of the great food wines – it’ll match such a
diversity of dishes through the whole spectrum from entrees to desserts
– try this one with anything from Moroccan, Asian or Mexican, to spiced
up chicken wings or pork ribs.
Just 300 cases were made, at just $22 a bottle these are sure to be snapped up.
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