St Hallett Butcher'S Cart Shiraz 2018
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SHBC201810 UCAU
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This is the full bodied, flavour packed Shiraz which made Barossa famous
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Over-delivers on quality for the price
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"Clean, gutsy, fresh and well-made." Campbell Mattinson
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1 or more bottles$28.75
Editors notes
Vibrant and rich blueberry and dark cherry with a hint of mocha. A bold an opulent palate, filled with generous red berry fruits, dark plums and completed by supple supportive tannins. Each parcel of Shiraz is individually matched to one of a selection of American oak barrels in which the wine spends one year maturing and gaining considerable texture and power prior to release.
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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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James Halliday
92"(2016 vintage) A full-bodied wine, celebrating the butcher on horse-drawn wheels honouring the founding Lindner family''s horse-drawn butcher''s cart of the early 1900s. It is of large-charcoal-grilled T-bone dimensions, with a tarry note to its black fruits and firm tannins. Has excellent potential."
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Campbell Mattinson
93"(2016 vintage) Full-bodied red. Clean, gutsy, fresh and well-made. A slide of vanillin oak rests on blackberry-and-plum fruit. Raspberry notes add both brightness and (fruit) sweetness. It's not rocket science but it's well done. If you like Barossa Shiraz, you can rely on this."
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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.
Barossa Valley
The Barossa Valley is about an hour and a half drive to the North of Adelaide, in South Australia and is the oldest wine region in the country, founded by German settlers. The region can be credited with putting Australian wine on the world wine map, thanks to Shiraz, which thrives in the warm climate (though Hunter Valley Semillon also contributed.)
For many years traditionalist wine makers thought the grape variety was best suited to the cooler climates of the Rhone Valley and that the variety would cook in the warmth of the Australian sun. Although South Australian Shiraz is a bigger, beefier wine than its southern French counterpart Syrah, no one can deny the region's propensity to produce world-class wines.
Not only Shiraz is cultivated in Barossa Valley, with other red varieties such as Grenache, Mourvedre (Mataro) and to a lesser extent Cabernet Sauvignon. The white varieties that thrive best seem to be Semillon, Chardonnay and Rhone varietals like viognier, Marsanne and Roussane.
The Valley has many subregions which all have unique terroirs. Seppeltsfield, Marananga, Greenock are to name but a few. With a huge number of wineries in such a small area and a host of accommodation, the region is very popular for wine tourism. In the words of Master of Wine Jancis Robinson, the Barossa Valley became "Australia's quintessential wine region."
About the brand St Hallett
Throughout the 70 year history of St Hallett in the Barossa with a keen focus on the regions most famous grape; Shiraz, they've maintained a philosophy of ‘do it once, do it right.' That way of thinking seems to have worked as the lineup of wines produced are to be commended, from entry levels to their flagship Old Block Shiraz, which incidentally is one of the regions finest and highly regarded wines.
The winery and facilities of St Hallett are located in just south of Tanunda, located between the Para River and surrounding vineyards. Fruit is sourced from all over the Barossa Valley and neighboring Eden Valley. Their relationships with growers throughout Seppeltsfield, Greenock, Moppa, Ebenezer, Lightpass and so many more subregions means that they have access to parcels of fruit from all aspects of the valley.
The intricacies of the Barossa and Eden valley subregions means that blending and fruit selection is key to the operation. Vines up to 100 years old are used in their wines, which impart a opulence, depth and concentration that producers in cooler regions around the world can only dream of.
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