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2018 Torzi Matthews Schist Rock Shiraz
2018 Torzi Matthews Schist Rock Shiraz
"A classic example of why this wine is a customer favourite year after year."
Sarah Linhart
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Felix Gentle
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$19.99 (buy 12 or more)
$21.99 per single bottle
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"A classic example of why this wine is a customer favourite year after year."
Sarah Linhart
""
Felix Gentle
Love it or your money back*
On orders Over $300*
Expert Reviews
This wine comes in at under $20 if you shop around. Tha'ts incredible value. Dom Torzi sets a modest price, but is invariably confident about the quality of his wines. Bright blueberry and blackberry, plenty of pepper and spice, potpourri perfume. It's medium bodied, sleek and dark cherry juicy, super fine tannin, some meaty and nutty flavours, gentle stony tannin pulling along the finish.
Tech stuff
Light
Full
How's it taste?
Rich and syrupy with milky black fruits and loads of spice.
How was it made?
Good rainfalls occurred in winter and spring, with moderate soil moisture for the growing season ahead. Spring as per usual serving up a slight frost during the first week of November reducing yields. The Estate showed healthy canopy heading into summer. January and February were warm and dry months, leading into early harvest in April to produce a deliciously generous complex Shiraz - bursting with deep aromatics and flavours. In the garage the hand harvested Shiraz fruit was gently destemmed, including 20% whole bunch into open top milk vats and fermented naturally with soft pump overs. Then basket pressed to barrel to complete ferment. Matured for 15 months in ex Frost Dodger Shiraz barrels with the addition of 10% new French & seasoned French oak barrels. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Who made it?
Torzi Matthews is a food and winemaking partnership between Domenic Torzi and Tracy Matthews which began in 1996 when they stumbled across a small, frost-pocketed hollow in the beautiful Mt McKenzie, Eden Valley and fell in love with the area for its remoteness and its diverse thin soils. Domenic and Tracey run the winery with one guiding principal: that their land produce low yields of fruit which in turn translate into flavoursome European style wines – the style of wines needed to match their Mediterranean heritage and food.
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Sarah Linhart
Wine Buyer
As a wine buyer, the first question people ask me is, ‘What’s your to favourite wine?’ Not a difficult question, right? Well, it’s not always that simple, as it depends on so many different factors such as; the occasion, the weather, or the food I’m eating. So, if you’re having trouble finding the right wine today, never fear, it happens to all of us! And to help make things easier, I have selected some of my personal favourites.
