The 2002 season was characterised by a cold, wet winter and spring, which produced lower yields with good, thick-skinned berries. The cool and dry summer ripened fruit gradually and a warm, dry autumn allowed the grapes to ripen fully, producing some of the best and most exotic characters seen for many years.

The '1928' Shiraz is an outstanding example of Barossa Valley old vine shiraz, made from vines planted in 1928.Winemaker, Rolf Binder, has crafted an opulently styled red. The wine was kept for 2 years in wood and then bottle aged before release.

JJ Hahn is premium Barossa Valley wine made from what is now heritage vineyard planted by the Hahn family over several generations. This family settled on their original land in 1846. JJ Hahn is a unique partnership between vigneron James Hahn and winemaker Rolf Binder .The inaugural vintage was 1997 when two barrels each of aged shiraz and cabernet were made.

Purple and maroon with a dense, youthful edge. Blackberry, raspberry, plum, blueberry, with lifted mocha and spice complexity. Secondary aromas of vanilla, coffee and charred oak offer added complexity. Due to the season the palate is powerful and assertive. Robust tannins grip well but are nicely balanced with glycerol sweetness from the old vines. Finish is firm with excellent persistence in flavour.

As a young wine, the fruit and oak are trading blows on a weekly basis. Nice and viscous with tangy acid and chalky tannin working their way through the palate. Pretty good length.

Established in 1979, family owned Maxwell Wines, with its seventy acre estate vineyard, has built a reputation for producing hand made, rich and robust reds that combine exquisite fruit quality with structure and finesse.

 

Located in the world-famous McLaren Vale wine district in South Australia, the winery and vineyards benefit from one of the most favourable sites in the region, providing the wines with a unique expression of the acclaimed McLaren Vale richness and style.

 

Maxwell of McLaren Vale red wines in particular are appreciated worldwide for the purity of fruit and complementary oak handling. With an annual crush of around 250 tonnes only, the winery is able to separately vinify and mature individual vineyard parcels, maintaining the delicacies and nuances of each batch prior to final blending.

 

A dense red-black colour in its youth, the aroma of spice and blackberry with complimenting oak shows the best qualities of McLaren Vale Shiraz. A palate of ripe dark berries, dark chocolate and black pepper fills the mouth, lasting well beyond the initial taste. Fine oak tannins provide balance and texture, creating a superbly balanced style with great length.

The palate is expansive, and yet finessed, balanced, highly defined, sleek. A continuum, an amalgam of dark berried flavours and textural sensations - deceptively accessible, yet a hidden largesse, untapped flavour and structural precursors threaten to ingress.

 

100% new oak is completely absorbed, meshed with ripe tannins, completing a palate of impressive length and youthfulness.

 

The Descendant is a single vineyard Shiraz-Viognier, which as the name implies, is a direct descendant of RunRig. The Descendant vineyard Shiraz expresses tar and black olive, offset wonderfully by the velvety mouth feel with the jasmine and apricot aromatics of Viognier.