Shiraz 2022

Predominately sourced from Woody Nook Wines original 1982 plantings of dry-grown, old vine Shiraz. This wine exhibits spice and a tinge of white pepper on the nose leading onto palate of black fruits and mulberry enhanced by vanillin, coconut and a slight char from the heavy toast American oak barriques.

Winemaker's Notes:

Woody Nook Wines Shiraz 2022 was made from low yielding, hand-picked grapes from the two vineyards on the Woody Nook estate; the non-irrigated, original 1982 Gallagher block (70%) and the younger, 2007 planted, Joliffe block (30%). A total of 3.63 tonne of shiraz grapes were hand-picked between 16^th March – 1^st April 2022, destemmed and crushed into small open fermenters, 150 litres per tonne of juice was drained off to concentrate the skins to juice ratio, inoculated with Syrah yeast and fermented on skins for eleven days with twice daily pump overs and hand plunging. The wine was then pressed to tank to complete primary and malo-lactic fermentation before racking to 8 barriques (50% new Vicard & Saury) for seventeen months maturation. The wine was then filtered and bottled (unfined) in December 2023.

203 cases were produced.

All wine is sold by the case. (multiples of 12 mix or match bottles)