2020 Sandalford Prendiville Reserve Shiraz
The palate is super concentrated with rich dark fruit flavours lifted with roasted coffee, mocha and sage bush. Sweet ripe fruit, firm grainy textured tannins, and high-quality fine-grained French oak delivers a wine of great structure and class finishing with exceptional length of flavour. The wine continues to get better in bottle on its long journey. Whilst drinking beautifully now, with careful cellar maturation for 15 years or more, this limited release of the Prendiville Reserve Shiraz will certainly reward the patient. Decanting is recommended prior to serving.
Winemaker comments
Winemaker Notes
At optimal ripeness, the grapes for this wine were hand-picked and transferred into small bins for transport. At the winery, the grapes were crushed into our small batch open fermenters and inoculated with a selected yeast strain. Routine pump overs were used during fermentation to facilitate colour, flavour and tannin extraction. At completion of primary fermentation, the wine was pressed off to tank to complete Malolactic Fermentation before being transferred to new and one-year old Burgundy coopered French oak barriques for fifteen months. Only the best barrels of Shiraz, totalling twenty-six, were selected and blended with a small amount of Malbec to complete the overall structure and balance of the wine.
Tasting notes
Varietals
Varietal
Shiraz
Colour
Other Notes
Deep ruby with purple red hues.
Nose
Production
Powerful aromas of coffee and dark plum with liquorice, mocha and underlying spice. Aromatic flavours of star anise, cardamon and black pepper evolve in the glass revealing a savoury balance to the sweet berry fruit.
Palate
Tasting Note
The palate is super concentrated with rich dark fruit flavours lifted with roasted coffee, mocha and sage bush. Sweet ripe fruit, firm grainy textured tannins, and high-quality fine-grained French oak delivers a wine of great structure and class finishing with exceptional length of flavour. The wine continues to get better in bottle on its long journey. Whilst drinking beautifully now, with careful cellar maturation for 15 years or more, this limited release of the Prendiville Reserve Shiraz will certainly reward the patient.
Decanting is recommended prior to serving.
Vintage Conditions
Vineyard Notes
2020 was a vintage like no other. Whilst a global pandemic changed the way people lived their lives, Margaret River experienced a near perfect vintage. The preceding Spring growing season was warmer than average resulting in earlier bud burst and grape development. Grape yields were lower than average which led to one of the earliest harvests on record. The dry and warm growing conditions through to the end of picking, in early April, presented ideal conditions for the ripening of fruit. The season allowed for the winemakers to harvest fruit at optimal flavour, tannin, and sugar ripeness. The 2020 vintage in Margaret River is widely regarded as excellent for red wines and will be long regarded as one of the great vintages for Margaret River.
