Shaw & Smith make nothing but the best, exemplars exhibiting the finest balance and most exquisite elegance, always offering greater palate weight, character and charm. A low yielding vineyard at Balhannah is at the heart of Shaw & Smith, yielding the most exceptional harvest, year in and year out. Inimitably Adelaide Hills, enhanced by the rich flavours and luxuriant tannins of pampered vines. An intensely currant flavoured rendition of Shiraz, supported by pliant, licorice tannins and seasoned by curls of fragrant tradewind spice.

$8299each $995DOZEN EACH DOZEN Vines are cane pruned and use an arched cane pruning system. Canopy management plays an important role in controlling herbaceousness and achieving perfect flavour development. The soils at Balhannah Vineyard are free draining sandy loams over red clay with underlying quartzite and shale. The exclusively hand picked grapes are sorted and fermented, predominantly as whole bunches, the remainder whole berries in open fermenters, with gentle plunging and minimal working. Aged in 500L French oak puncheons over the course of fourteen months, followed by a further year of maturation in bottle under the estate cellars.

$9199each $1103DOZEN EACH DOZEN

Shiraz grapes in the Adelaide Hills ripen slowly and evenly resulting in spicey, intense expressions in the fruit. Shaw + Smith is a star performer, sourced from the carefully managed warmer sub-area of Macclesfield which provides structure and richness. The cooler climes of Balhannah yield a truly exciting new wave Shiraz with loads of clean pepper, spiceyness, concentration and palate weight to match. A brilliantly structured wine with great concentration of fruit flavours, a modern Australian expression with less reliance on oak, vibrant and bright.

$5099each $611DOZEN EACH DOZEN Sourced from the warmer, drier parts of the Adelaide Hills around Macclesfield and from low yielding vines at Balhannah. Generally soil structures are shallow red/brown loam over schist and clay. High density vine plantings are hand pruned, vertical shoot positioned canopies. Yields are restricted to 2kg per vine, essential in achieving concentration. A small batch approach is adopted throughout the winemaking. Hand picked whole bunches and whole berries are inoculated and vinified in small fermenters, regularly hand plunged and pumped over. Upon completion of malolactic, components are treated to a year's maturation in a selection of seasoned and new French barriques and larger format oak.

Deep red with bright robes. Aromas of red fruits, pepper and spice. A palate brimming with bramble, layered and long, a fruit filled savoury wine, showing great purity of character, currants and spice, background clove and black pepper notes, reined in by soft and fine, ample tannins. A match to fine Italian and French faire, braises and cheese.

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A collaboration between one of Australia's most intrepid, artisanal boutique winemakers and skilled contract viticulturalists. Simon Cowham became intimate with Eden Valley's most exquisite sites during a tour of duty at Yalumba. He is retained by the most prestigious wineries and manages the finest Barossa vineyards. Cowham has assembled choice parcels of old vines fruit, from precious blocks over fifty years of age, grown to salubrious sites on the Eden Valley ranges and hamlet of Moculta, for a more refined style of Shiraz, alluringly perfumed, structured and statuesque.

$6599each $791DOZEN EACH DOZEN Grapes are all hand picked and crushed into small 1½ tonnes open topped fermenters, a ortion of whole bunches are included in the cold, A wild indigenous yeast vinification peaks at 32C before being cooled to 28C. A course of good old fashioned daily hand plunging aids in gentle extraction of tannin and flavour. After an extended term on skins, ferments are pressed into predominately new French oak hogsheads for completion and malolactic. Batches are matured for up to two years before assemblage, natural clarification and stabilisation, to be bottled after minimal finings and without filtration, to retain mouthfeel and refined textures.

The ancient Romans made no secret that their success was due to a merciless use of power. In furtherance of their aim to sire generations of ruthless warriors and entrepreneurs, they taught their youth the myth of twins who established a city state. Remus was the sophisticated one and Romulus was a brute. Romulus slayed his gentler brother and gave his name to a great empire. Sons of Eden offer both, Remus of Eden Valley, elegant and refined, or the rich and powerful Romulus of Barossa, siblings and adversaries, destined to an eternal rivalry for your favour.

$6599each $791DOZEN EACH DOZEN Harvests of old vine Shiraz are assembled, from splendid sites eighty years of age and more, in the premiere viticultural precincts of Moppa and Light Pass. Grapes are all hand picked, destemmed and crushed into small, open top ½ tonnes fermenters. A variety of vinification techniques are employed, unique to each parcel, to create layers of flavour and complexity. Batches are hand plunged daily, for gentle extraction of colour, flavour and tannin. After an extended term on skins, ferments are pressed to a selection of predominately new American oak hogsheads for completion, a course of malolactic and twenty months maturation. Components are assembled and bottled without fitration.

Deep crimson colour. Complex aromas of densely ripe plum, currants and red berry fruits, seasoned by liquorice notes, milled spice and vanilla bean. A powerful and fleshy palate of peppery plums, piquant red berries and oaken spice are framed by a border of fine American oak and supported by a length of persistent, firm, silky tannins.

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$14999each $1797DOZEN EACH DOZEN

$14999each $1799DOZEN EACH DOZEN

$14999each $1797DOZEN EACH DOZEN

$14999each $1797DOZEN EACH DOZEN

$5599each $671DOZEN EACH DOZEN