Eperosa Barossa Valley Mataro Shiraz 2017

Another amazing release from the acclaimed Brett Grocke. Fruit is sourced from both the Hoffmann Sand Block, planted to Mataro and farmed by the Hoffmann family on a fine, windblown siliceous sand overlying clay at depth producing fruit with bright red musk and spicy aromatics. Grown in the sub region of Ebenezer and thinned post veraison leaving only the best fruit to reach harvest.
This wine is harmoniously blended with The Magnolia Road Shiraz. Sourced from the 1996 planting which is dry grown on a deep bed of alluvial granitic sand, rod and spur pruned, bunch thinned and the fruit handpicked producing fruit with ferrous red berry aromatics and fine grain tannins. 

 “I nearly blindsided myself with this wine thanks to my general disappointment with Barossa Valley mataro. This is another thing altogether. It’s a blend of 75% mataro from the Hoffman Sand Block at Ebenezer and 25% shiraz from the Magnolia Road Vineyard at Vine Vale. The mataro was green bunch-thinned post veraison, and matured in a 1650l foudre, the organically farmed shiraz also bunch-thinned, and aged in French hogsheads. It’s supple and silky, the mouthfeel superb.” – 96 Points & Special Value Wine James Halliday