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Voyager Estate Shiraz(1999)
Winemaker's notes (from Voyager Estate website):
Colour: Deep garnet
Nose: White pepper, blueberries, earthy beetroot, liquorice and sweet vanillin oak
Palate: Blueberries, dark plums, white pepper and spice, integrated with long, fine, chalky tannins
The wine was mostly fermented in static fermenters and pumped over three times a day. Two batches were in open fermenters and plunged three times daily. Compared to previous vintages, the rate of yeast inoculums was reduced to lower the rate and temperature of fermentation. In order to manage read more...
Colour: Deep garnet
Nose: White pepper, blueberries, earthy beetroot, liquorice and sweet vanillin oak
Palate: Blueberries, dark plums, white pepper and spice, integrated with long, fine, chalky tannins
The wine was mostly fermented in static fermenters and pumped over three times a day. Two batches were in open fermenters and plunged three times daily. Compared to previous vintages, the rate of yeast inoculums was reduced to lower the rate and temperature of fermentation. In order to manage read more...
- May 2008
- From an outstanding vintage for red wines in Margaret River. If you can find it, this earlier vintage of the Voyager Estate shiraz, which had a small dose of estate-grown grenache, is a wine in a "hybrid" (Austro-French) style. It has masses of high-class, distinctly regional fruit characters (spice, liquorice and black cherry), but with distinctly gamy, almost barnyard characters, Rhone-like savoury earthiness, with good acid, excellent balance and structure. The gamy characters faded after the wine had been open for 24 hours. Another bottle that had been open for 3 days (!!!) showed distinct read more...
