Powell & Son 'Kraehe' Shiraz 2016
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PSSH201614 UCAU
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98 Points from both Joe Czerwinski and Jeb Dunnuck
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Powell & Son is renowned for its commitment to producing high-quality wines and each bottle is meticulously crafted with utmost attention to detail, ensuring a wine that truly stands out.
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This wine strikes a perfect balance between power and elegance with luscious dark fruit notes, such as blackberry and plum, intertwined with hints of spice and a touch of black pepper. The complexity of flavours adds depth and sophistication to every sip.
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1 or more bottles$749.00
Editors notes
Powell & Son 'Kraehe' Shiraz 2016 is an exceptional wine that offers an unforgettable experience for wine enthusiasts. Powell & Son is renowned for its commitment to producing high-quality wines. Each bottle is meticulously crafted with utmost attention to detail, ensuring a wine that truly stands out.
The 2016 vintage of Powell & Son 'Kraehe' Shiraz exudes a rich and intense flavor profile. You can expect luscious dark fruit notes, such as blackberry and plum, intertwined with hints of spice and a touch of black pepper. The complexity of flavors adds depth and sophistication to every sip.
The 2016 vintage has excellent aging potential, allowing you to enjoy its evolving complexity over time. This wine has been crafted to age gracefully, revealing new dimensions and nuances as it matures. If you enjoy cellaring wines or appreciate the transformation of flavors, the 'Kraehe' Shiraz 2016 will be a rewarding choice.
Powell & Son has gained a stellar reputation within the wine industry, and their 'Kraehe' Shiraz consistently receives critical acclaim. The wine has been recognized by experts and wine enthusiasts alike for its exceptional quality, making it a highly sought-after and prestigious addition to any wine collection.
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- Blackberry
- Blueberry
- Pepper
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- Blackberry
- Fruit Cake
- Tobacco
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Red Meat
Critic Scores & reviews
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Joe Czerwinski
98"The 2016 Kraehe Shiraz comes from 110-year-old vines in Marananga. Like the Steinert Shiraz, it's aged in new barriques from Dominique Laurent, which give the wine attractive hints of pencil shavings and dried spices. On the palate, it's all blackberries and spice, full-bodied, plush and silky, with a never-ending finish and an extraordinary sense of grace and elegance."
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Jeb Dunnuck
98"Another single vineyard masterpiece is the 2016 Shiraz Kraehe which comes from Maranaga region of the Barossa which is a slightly drier region, and this particular vineyard consists of red, iron-laced soils and vines upwards of 100 years in age. It has a more flamboyant, sexy style compared to the Steinert release and boasts a huge bouquet of black currants, raspberries, Asian spices, beef blood, and subtle graphite and classy oak. It’s deep, layered, and seamless on the palate, with full-bodied richness, plenty of underlying structure, awesome purity, and a singular character. This is another magical wine from this team of David Powell and his son Callum. It’s going to evolve for 20+ years as well."
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Mike Bennie
95+"There’s a no compromise feel to the Powell & Son project. Old vines. Vineyards farmed by hand by a quartet that includes Dave and Callum Powell and two other trusted farmer types. All fruit is now organically farmed (though not certified). The wines are of course full throttle, expressive and lavish. This Kraehe vineyard has several ‘plots’ on it, but this wine is made up of the oldest material of 100-year-old vines. There are 175 dozen produced. Moody, brooding fog of dark berried fruit, briar, pipe tobacco, black olives and subtle mahogany oak. Impossibly smooth, dense, slick and long in flavour. A supple, silken flow of concentrated dark fruit flavours and molten spice, with faint, form-fitting tannins soft but finely tightening and lengthening the wine. Very luxurious feel here."
Other vintages
Love this wine? Here's a list of other vintages we have in stock if you'd like to try them as well.
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- Variety Shiraz
- Vintage 2016
- Brand Powell and Son
- Cellaring 15 Plus Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.5% Alcohol
Powell & Son 'Steinert' Flaxman's Valley Shiraz 2016-
Jeb Dunnuck99 points
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Joe Czerwinski98 points
$749.99
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Australia
Australia's wine industry is a thriving part of the country's economy, contributing significantly to employment, production, export, and tourism. In fact, the industry is the fourth-largest wine exporter in the world, shipping out 760 million liters of wine to countries including France, Italy, Spain, and the UK. One of the key factors contributing to Australia's success as a "New World" wine producer is the formal export and marketing of its wines through Wine Australia.
Australia's wine regions are scattered across the south and southeast, with almost every state boasting its own vineyards. Victoria, for example, is home to an impressive 21 wine regions. Some of the most famous wine regions in Australia include Margaret River, Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Eden Valley, Clare Valley, Hunter Valley, Yarra Valley, and local regions to New South Wales such as Cowra, Southern Highlands, and Mudgee.
Australian winemakers are known for producing a diverse range of grape varieties, with Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Noir being among the most popular. They tend to focus on producing wines that are ripe, fruit-forward, and easy to drink, using modern winemaking techniques and equipment such as stainless steel tanks and temperature-controlled fermentation.
With its bold, fruit-driven flavors and reputation for quality and diversity, Australian wine has become a popular choice for wine lovers around the world. And with such a broad range of wine regions and grape varieties, there's something for every palate to enjoy.
South Australia
If you like Australian wine, then you probably like South Australia wine. The rich reds produced there put Australia on the wine-making map of the world. With over 40% of the country's vineyards, South Australia can rightfully call itself the wine state.
Wines are produced in several regions throughout the state, though many are naturally grouped together, like Barossa and Eden Valleys, only 15 minutes apart. They include such regions as Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Eden Valley, Coonawarra, Adelaide Hills, Kangaroo Island, Langhorne Creek, The Limestone Coast, McLaren Vale and Wrattonbully to name but a few!
Barossa Valley boasts some of the oldest vines in Australia dating back to 1843 and produces some of the world's finest Shiraz, whilst the 'terra rossa' soils of Coonawarra is most suited to producing outstanding Cabernet Sauvignons. If you're a fan of Riesling, Clare Valley is a great place to explore and for a Maritime climate not dissimilar to parts of the Italian coastline, seek out the wines from McLaren Vale.
Eden Valley
Eden Valley is a cool climate wine region between 400 and 600m up the Barossa range, to the east of the warmer Barossa Valley. It is of a similar size to Barossa Valley, but given the altitude and cooler climate, Eden Valley is reknowned for producing high quality Riesling and Shiraz. Due to its cool climate, small portions of cooler Eden Valley fruit are often blended with 'sister' wines from the Barossa Valley.
The cooler climate provides optimum conditions for long, slow ripening of the grapes, which generally retain acidity and developing complex flavours on the vine. The townships sub regions include Keyneton in the east, Truro in the north and Mt Pleasant in the south and High Eden, located even higher up the Barossa Ranges, with even cooler temperatures.
The soils of the region is generally nutrient poor yellow podzolic/sandy & pink quartz soils over decomposed (gneiss) granite. With its rocky outcrop, which extends to the soild, most irrigation is provided by dams, and most vineyards plant their vines close together. When compared to Clare Valley, Eden Valley is slightly higher in altitude and a little cooler, though has similar sunshine hours, but lower levels of continentality.
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About the brand Powell and Son
Powell & Son wines are made from some of the oldest and most sacred vineyards in the world. Sourced from various sites throughout the Barossa and Eden Valleys, Callum and Dave Powell employ traditional, minimalist winemaking techniques to produce a wine that speaks of the place that it was grown. Their inspiration for winemaking having its roots in France’s Rhone Valley, Powell & Son red wines are made from the classic Rhone varietals: Shiraz, Grenache and Mataro and its whites: Roussanne, Marsanne and Riesling. The Powell philosophy is that a great wine is made in the vineyard and so Callum and Dave work the vineyards they use on their own in the Winter season, then in the Summer pick the fruit and vinify using old concrete ferment vats and basket pressing – producing unique and expressive wines from their most prized vineyards throughout the Barossa.
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