Filsell Shiraz 2004
Grant Burge
Barossa Valley, South Australia
100% Single Vineyard Shiraz
Grant’s Filsell vineyard with near century-old vines, is considered one of the best vineyards in the Barossa Valley, and consistently produces fruit of great intensity and concentration. Planted in the early 1920’s this vineyard also produces the fruit for Grant’s flagship Shiraz, the highly acclaimed Meshach; with Filsell known to loyal followers as the wines younger brother.
Different batches of fruit were crushed and fermented separately. The juice reached 28°C at the start of fermentation before it was cooled to 22°C.The wine was pumped over three times a day and are pressed gently from the skins at the end of fermentation. The wine was matured in new and two year old American and some French oak hogsheads for 20 months before bottling.
94, James Halliday / Australia Wine Companion
“ Great colour, a magical mix of fleshy and firmer fruit, great balance and mouthfeel; savoury tannins provide discipline. ”
94, 2008 Australian Wine Annual — Jeremy Oliver
‘A typically elegant and sweetly fruited Lyndoch Shiraz whose wild heady and alluring perfume of small dark fruits, musk and cloves….. on one hand it is sumptuous and richly fruited, with deep flavours of plums, blackberries and cassis, on the other, it’s elegant and approachable, supported by firm-ish but pleasant tannin…’ ”
