DE BORTOLI YV SHIRAZ VIOGNIER - WINE - RED - SHIRAZ - Liquor Home Delivery of Wine Beer and Spirits to Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane across Australia

Rich, lifted perfumed white pepper Shiraz fruit with subliminal complexing floral Viognier

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Full fruit palate with berries, pepper and subtle appearance of oak. The small addition of Viognier has contributed complexity, whilst maintaining tightness and detail.

Shiraz Viognier vines are cane-pruned to 20 buds and are shoot thinned to ensure that each vine yields around 15 bunches. Fruit is hand picked and sorted. A combination of whole bunches, whole berries, crushed fruit and 5% Viognier are gravity tipped to open fermenters. The fruit is then allowed to ferment naturally with indigenous yeast. Over 18-20 days, both hand and foot plunging is used to gently extract colour and flavour. The grapes are pressed and settled for 24 hours before racking to cask (30% of which are new) for MLF and maturation. After 10 months, wine is gravity racked and then bottled.

This wine will continue to develop complexity for 4 to 8 years in a good cellar.