ROSS HILL FAMILY SERIES 'JACK'S LOT' 2019 - SHIRAZ
Grape: | Shiraz |
Vineyard: | Ross Hill |
Origin: | Orange, NSW, Australia |
ABV%: | 13.5% |
Colour: |
Medium ruby red |
Aromas: |
Raspberry, cherry, plum, liquorice, violets and pepper. Notes of chocolate and vanilla. |
Flavours: | Raspberry, cherry, plum, blackberry, liquorice, violets and pepper. Soft notes of chocolate, cedar and earthiness. |
SILVER MEDAL WINNER - LONDON WINE COMPETITION 2022
Ross Hill are very proud of their medium weight shiraz, and rightly so! Packed full of red fruits; liquorice, plums, wood spices and violets. This wine is not built to be a blockbuster, but full of brightness, red fruit acidity, allows the just ripe fruit to speak of the cool climate. The winemaker has a produced a special wine.
Highlights:
- 100% Orange District from 5 different vineyards at various altitudes below 800 metres ASL
- Machine Picked and destemmed at the winery to closed fermenters
- Individual components fermented separately with cultured yeasts added and wine spent only 1 week on skins prior to being pressed off
- Wine finished MLF in tank prior to being barrelled down
- Wine put into 10% new French oak with the rest of the batch seeing neutral French oak
- 18 months in barrel prior to bottling