Accolades:
97/100 – Halliday Wine Companion
97/100 – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
96/100 – Stuart Knox, The Real Review
96/100 – James Suckling
95/100 – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
Tasting Note: Ironheart is the flagship Shiraz from our single vineyard estate in Blewitt Springs at the northern edge of McLaren Vale. The vineyard’s northern aspect, higher elevation and sandy ironstone soils produce Shiraz with immense concentration and finesse.
Winemaking Notes: Hand-picked (24th March), 25% whole bunches, and the remainder destemmed, mechanically berry sorted, and crushed. Open fermenters and on skins for approximately 21 days. A gentle maceration principle of wetting the cap and only draining and returning as required. Wild yeast ferment. No pressings are used in this wine. Matured in French oak for a total of 19 months. Kept on lees for 12 months in French oak puncheons (35% new) and then blended to a 2 year old Austrian and French oak foudre and further matured for 7 months. Bottled November 2023.
Certification: Organic, Biodynamic
Alcohol: 13.5%
Variety: Shiraz
Region: Kangarilla, McLaren Vale, South Australia