Agricola 'Ebenezer' Shiraz 2024
- TASTING NOTE: "Phwoar ... this is an Ebenezer-born shiraz that has considerable heft and power, while retaining a cadence and line that brings clarity and detail to its form. Yeah, sign me up for that. The soils are all red clay and ironstone over calcrete; that subregional sense of compression, bunchy nuance and the ferruginous baseline runs strong here. But there's something different. There's freshness and a little more light shining in than is the norm for its northern Barossa brethren. The dark plum and blackberry fruits are studded with exotic spice, peppercorn, pan juices, dark chocolate and earth; it's all there but there's lift and a pleasing pace." 96 Points - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion
- ABOUT THE WINE: This is from the Hoffmann Dallwitz vineyard, with 1888 through to 1912 plantings and the Hoffmann Dimchurch 1951 vines. These wines encapsulate the 'New Barossa', balancing richness while maintaining fruit purity and acknowledging a sense of place. To achieve this, Callum has a few tricks. He shares, “I try not to pick overripe and limit using too much new oak. Fermentation is long, gentle and cold and without inoculated yeast strains. The barrel cellar is very cold and all of the wine movements from vintage to bottling are by gravity." Halliday
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: The Barossa is big on tradition, but what excites the most is the new generation of winemakers coming through the ranks, producing world-class wines with a deep respect for the subregions and history of Australia's most famous wine region. Callum Powell is one such winemaker. Son of ex-Torbreck svengali Dave Powell, he now crafts his own range of wines from a couple of sheds in Flaxman Valley. It’s a stunning range of wines from vineyard sites that will be familiar to those that love the Barossa – the Hoffman Dimchurch and Dallwitz blocks, Three Rivers and the 1864-planted Asbroek vineyard in Kalimna. The winemaking is thoughtful and deeply considered, the resulting wines stunning in their fruit purity and sense of place and Agricola Vintners can be underlined as one of the stars of the ‘New Barossa’. Halliday Wine Companion
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Barossa Valley, South Australia
- VARIETAL: Shiraz
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Callum Powell
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 14.4%
- SIZE: 750ml
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- TASTING NOTE: "Phwoar ... this is an Ebenezer-born shiraz that has considerable heft and power, while retaining a cadence and line that brings clarity and detail to its form. Yeah, sign me up for that. The soils are all red clay and ironstone over calcrete; that subregional sense of compression, bunchy nuance and the ferruginous baseline runs strong here. But there's something different. There's freshness and a little more light shining in than is the norm for its northern Barossa brethren. The dark plum and blackberry fruits are studded with exotic spice, peppercorn, pan juices, dark chocolate and earth; it's all there but there's lift and a pleasing pace." 96 Points - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion
- ABOUT THE WINE: This is from the Hoffmann Dallwitz vineyard, with 1888 through to 1912 plantings and the Hoffmann Dimchurch 1951 vines. These wines encapsulate the 'New Barossa', balancing richness while maintaining fruit purity and acknowledging a sense of place. To achieve this, Callum has a few tricks. He shares, “I try not to pick overripe and limit using too much new oak. Fermentation is long, gentle and cold and without inoculated yeast strains. The barrel cellar is very cold and all of the wine movements from vintage to bottling are by gravity." Halliday
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: The Barossa is big on tradition, but what excites the most is the new generation of winemakers coming through the ranks, producing world-class wines with a deep respect for the subregions and history of Australia's most famous wine region. Callum Powell is one such winemaker. Son of ex-Torbreck svengali Dave Powell, he now crafts his own range of wines from a couple of sheds in Flaxman Valley. It’s a stunning range of wines from vineyard sites that will be familiar to those that love the Barossa – the Hoffman Dimchurch and Dallwitz blocks, Three Rivers and the 1864-planted Asbroek vineyard in Kalimna. The winemaking is thoughtful and deeply considered, the resulting wines stunning in their fruit purity and sense of place and Agricola Vintners can be underlined as one of the stars of the ‘New Barossa’. Halliday Wine Companion
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Barossa Valley, South Australia
- VARIETAL: Shiraz
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Callum Powell
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 14.4%
- SIZE: 750ml
