A full bodied wine with dark cocoa, black pepper, plum, ground coffee, blackberry and ripe cherry characters. The sweet dark fruits are balanced by gentle powdery tannins.  Bottle age is now revealing greater complexity and smoothness.  Fabulous to enjoy now and will also cellar until 2028 or so. 5% whole bunch, 8 days on skins, French Oak (10%new) for 12 months  

Our highly awarded 2016 vintage Red Art Shiraz is a full bodied wine with fabulous fruit expression.   We have 3 separate blocks of shiraz on our little single vineyard, and each plot provides different characters and tannin profiles.  Together they create a wine with great depth and layers of flavours.  Maturation in mostly older French oak allows the single vineyard characters to shine through without strong oak influence.  This wine will continue to develop in the bottle for many, many years to come. Trophy: Red Wine of Provenance, National Wine Show of Australia 2017 The Red Wine of Provenance Trophy awards the best and most age worthy red wine in Australia.  Three vintages of the same wine spanning 10 years are judged as a group, assessing the consistency of quality and expression over time.  In 2017 our Red Art Shiraz vintages 2016, 2010, 2006 won this very important trophy. Decanter May 2023 96 points From a family-run micro-winery founded by sixth-generation Barossan vigneron Sam Kurtz and his wife Bernadette Kaeding, who also designs all the labels for their range. The Shiraz vines on their 5ha Ebenezer site were 20 years old in this moderately warm vintage; the fruit (some left as whole bunches) was handpicked and fermented with wild yeasts in open-top vats, basket pressed, then aged 15 months in seasoned French oak.  Decanter judges comments: Justin Knock MW "Intriguing aromatic complexity, savoury, elusive, peppercorn and cured meats, turmeric and sage. Silky and charming, beguiling." Tina Gellie "Gorgeous youthful purity on the nose, pretty and lifted, full of florals, berries and exotic smoky spices. Compelling, a lightly dancing and breezy Shiraz with good structure." Roger Jones "Clean and focused with a smoky element, blackcurrants, spice, restrained. A classy wine full of promise, ripe fruit still at the fore but a lovely complexity, too."

Our flagship wine Raj’s Pick is a made from the best hand selected parcels of grapes. Named after our son Raj, it is only made in vintages that produce fruit suitable for Raj’s Pick. Concentrated basket-pressings have added great richness, intense flavours and dense tannins to the wine. This is delicately balanced with beautiful French oak. If you have the willpower, it can be cellared for many years to come. Only 60 dozen made! Listed in Matthew Jukes 100 Best Australian Wines 2022/23

Our flagship wine Raj’s Pick is a made from the best hand selected parcels of grapes. Named after our son Raj, it is only made in vintages that produce fruit suitable for Raj’s Pick. Concentrated basket-pressings have added great richness, intense flavours and dense tannins to the wine. This is delicately balanced with beautiful French oak. If you have the willpower, it can be cellared for many years to come. Only 30 dozen made! "...This wine is only a 300-bottle production wine, and like last year’s spectacular 2015 vintage, which blew people away at my launch at Australia House in London, this is as complex as any wine I have tasted this year with an ever-changing vortex of liquorice, earth, oak, spice and dense black fruit..."  

Matthew Jukes, Best 100 Australian Wines 2023

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