Description

Red Wine: 2019 | Hickinbotham | Brooks Road Shiraz

It marries red, blue and black fruit aromas with perfumed and savoury elements and captures the full flavour of Shiraz with deeply ripe plum and blackberry fruits.

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Producer: Hickinbotham

Ratings: WA | 92 JS | 95

Vintage: 2019

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14.5%

Varietal: Shiraz

Country/Region: Australia, South Australia

It marries red, blue and black fruit aromas with perfumed and savoury elements and captures the full flavour of Shiraz with deeply ripe plum and blackberry fruits. The powerful and defined tannins are balanced with even-paced acid structure which accentuates length of flavour and delivers a sense of sustained purity on the palate.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Marked by notes of vanilla and creosote on the nose, the 2019 Brooks Road Shiraz follows those opening salvos with blueberry and plum fruit, cedar shavings and dark chocolate. It’s medium to full-bodied, supple and ripe, with a plush feel and a long, licorice-tinged finish. There’s ample concentration and power, but the wine is already approachable and I’d expect it to age relatively quickly.

• James Suckling: This has such effortless depth and impressive measure. It delivers aromas of ripe red and dark plums with slate and blackberries, framed in fresh, subtly spicy and cedary oak. The palate is packed with ripe red plums, red cherries and mulberries, as well as deeper blueberries and darker plums. The power is innate and the palate so focused. Elegant and pure.

Producer Information

First planted in 1971 to dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz, Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard sits in the hills of Clarendon, at the upper limit of Australias revered McLaren Vale winegrowing region. The vineyard historically produced fruit for many of Australias iconic producers like Penfolds, Hardys, and Clarendon Hills, and was not bottled under its own label until 2012. The confluence of the hills, ocean and ancient earth the vineyard sits atop a 75 million-year-old geology has a strong influence on the style of wines made here. Under the helm of winemakers Christopher Carpenter and Peter Fraser and viticulturer Michael Lane Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard employs organic and biodynamic farming practices to produce a range of highly distinctive and powerful red wines. Its flagship wine, The Peake, is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz a style that embraces a famous part of Australias winemaking history. It is complemented by a highly acclaimed lineup that has garnered attention from global critics and drawn eyes to Clarendon as a region producing some of Australias most celebrated wines.