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Yalumba - The Viognier Specialist Of Australia

Yalumba – The Viognier Specialist Of Australia

Fragrant, floral, and fresh, what could be more perfect for the spring than Viognier.  Viognier produces some of the world’s greatest white wines.  It is not only incredibly delicious but it is quite versatile and pairs well with food.  A Northern Rhone white grape variety, Viognier has found a second home in Eden Valley, Australia.  April 29th is International Viognier Day and the perfect day to…

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Raw power shiraz

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Their aim is to most importantly capture the variety’s obvious characters, a recognisable regional style of richness and generosity, while gradually refining their winemaking to encourage greater elegance and drinkability. The Duvals source fruit from the Barossa Valley floor and higher, cooler Eden Valley, which offer totally different expressions of shiraz. “Now, along with traditional practices, there’s earlier picking, more whole bunch being used, some carbonic maceration, and what have become the cliches of moving away from American oak to French and respecting your site, all resulting in a great divergence of style.” Tim and John Duval aim to create modern shiraz styles that capture the essence of the Barossa. “It’s resulted in shiraz that is not simply painted with the same brush,” he says. “There’s a proliferation of younger winemakers in the Barossa with experimental approaches to shiraz that are breathing life into the whole district,” John says. The increase in understanding vineyards and the winery floor has also led to a wider change in philosophy and process, often generational, towards creating new, gentler expressions of shiraz that have perhaps taken a lead from the way pinot noir and grenache have thrilled winemakers and drinkers alike in recent years.Īn evolution in shiraz is certainly here, according to renowned Barossa winemaker John Duval and son Tim. “We’re all trying to make better wine and we have better technical ability now as an industry to achieve that,” Paul says. The overarching desire to “tone things down”, according to Halliday 2018 Winemaker of the Year Paul Hotker, of Bleasdale in Langhorne Creek, has led to more vibrant shiraz wines that come from an increased understanding of what makes the variety inherently delicious. Similar stories repeat in almost every region. The way that influences her team’s winemaking, seen clearly in Yalumba’s new Samuel’s Collection range, has resulted in less extraction of fruit, less time on skins, cooler fermentation, less oak and less new oak, as well as larger maturation vessels, so it is now a support flavour to the wine rather than a dominant one. Yalumba’s own market research has shown that in the $15 to $30 price range, consumers are seeking wines that are more medium-bodied than ever younger, more youthful, fresher, softer and more food-friendly – wines that are ready to drink now rather than for cellaring. “And drinkability is a major factor in how we approach our winemaking.” “Everyone is trying to make wines that have their own look about them, from the vineyard, in the winery and in their regions,” says Yalumba chief winemaker Louisa Rose.

Raw power shiraz drivers#

Authenticity, individuality, personality and drinkability are the drivers of winemaking today. In its keystone regions of South Australia’s Barossa and McLaren Vale, it has been the tool to unlock the secrets of subdistrict, village and single-site diversity.Īnd now it is all that and much, much more. It has been a messenger for defining regionality. It was the frontline soldier during the years when extreme ripeness, vanilla-cream American oak and raw alcoholic power were, in hindsight, unlikely fashion statements. Over the past two decades, and especially in the past five years, it’s been recognised that shiraz can be a many splendoured thing and is able to deliver unlimited expressions from every corner of our winemaking landscape. Not surprisingly, given all those factors, shiraz is not the simple red monolith many imagine. Shiraz grows successfully north, south, east and west: yes, Queensland to Tasmania, New South Wales to Western Australia, South Australia to Victoria, on mountain slopes and along the great rivers, in sand, clay and volcanic ground. Retailers still marvel at its continued popularity, while exporters celebrate its stature as a global ambassador. These statistics tell of its economic power domestically. Shiraz, that is.Ĭonsidered by many to be the most important wine grape in the country, it occupies 30 per cent of the national vineyard, and supplied close to a quarter of the total crush of all wine grapes in the 2018 vintage.

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🎙️The driest place in the driest country, on Earth. A hundred thirty years ago there was gold in these hills, that's long gone. Now they found liquid gold. They store it stainless tanks, it's called Chardonnay. A revolution is taking place in the wine world, a torrent of wine from places you've hardly heard of, is sweeping away the established order. New names are taking over, the cozy Old World's struggling to compete. Most of these new wines are called by the name a grape, the chief influence on flavor, understanding the main grapes, makes wine make sense and this one's the most popular. But, probably the least understood. Adelaide's the wine capital of Australia, the most confident nation in the challenging new world of wine. Over the last 20 years the wine world has been turned upside down, France may produce many of the world's finest wines. But, in the real commercial world of corks pulled and glasses poured down throats. French wine sales have been plummeting. As producers in places like California, South America, South Africa and Australia. Try that much harder to produce the best of wine with every vintage, and everything produced and it has plans to eventually take over the wine drinking world. When you have winemaker's like Louisa Rose, that's not surprising‼️ #wine #winelover #vino #winetasting #winelovers #instawine #food #winery #winetime #winestagram #whitewine #beer #vin #wineoclock #sommelier #foodporn #vinho #love #foodie #wein #wines #drinks #winelife #bar #italy #instagood #champagne #restaurant #cocktails #brainstormceo (at Charleston, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B01EATshlCS/?igshid=111j2spto35ga