McLaren Vale Tintara Shiraz 2009 & Brookland Valley Estate Chardonnay 2011
McLaren Vale
Tintara Shiraz 2009
With a vintage history of 150 years Tintara winery is recognised at the pioneer
for taking the wines of the McLaren Vale in South Australia onto the world
market.
Now Tintara applies what is fundamentally a treasure trove of history and
practice with cutting edge new-age wine making technology. It has just released
the 2009 McLaren Vale Shiraz is tribute to it recognising times past and
encapturing the present.
Located between the Mount Lofty Ranges and the Gulf of St Vincent, McLaren Vale
experiences similar to Mediterranean conditions, with the Tintara 2009 Shiraz
mirroring this. Its style has a boldness together with the intense flavour of
fruit and smooth fine tannins.
Standing out on the palate are delightful hints of chocolate, fruitcake spice
and blue fruits. Combine this with a persistent finish and acid balance and you
have exactly what to look for in a top-of-the-line Shiraz. At $24.99 you can
enjoy this Shiraz's beneficence of flavour with an similarly sumptuously tasting
rack-of-lamb.
Out To Lunch:
Ideal conditions resulted in an outstanding vintage in 2011. This allowed
winemaker, Peter Dillon to move this vintage of Chardonnay out into the market, unlike
the 2010 vintage which was limited a the small number of cases produced and
therefore confining sales from the cellar door.
Brookland Valley is located in Wilyabrup a sub-region of the Margaret River.
Located within two kilometres of the Indian Ocean the Valley experiences a
distinctively micro-climate. Dillon's 2011 Estate Chardonnay has a beautifully
full palate with distinctive citrus notes in the foreground.
At $37.50 a bottle it can be reserved for those special occasions to savour
with Springtime seafood pleasures such as scallops with sautéed
mushrooms and shallots browned in butter.
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