Neldner Road Kraehe Shiraz 2021

"The Kraehe family were amongst the original settlers to come to the Barossa Valley in the middle of the 19th century. The oldest vines on our Kraehe property are now over 100 years old. 
The Kraehe vineyard is at 235 metres altitude and planted to a gentle Eastern exposure on Marananga’s ironstone ridge. Its soils are red, ironstone-rich clays. The vineyard is East-West trellised and rod and spur pruned.
The wine is aged two years in Dominique Laurent ‘Magic Casks’, of which I am lucky be one of the few producers outside of France that have an allocation of the barrels. 
The Shiraz produced from this vineyard is the epitome of the world renowned style that is Barossa Valley Shiraz. The wine is rich and generous in fruit: plum, dark cherry and blackberry. It provides a deep, dark svelte tannin backbone and mouth-coating palate. The wine stands alone in intensity, opulence and concentration of flavour. It is a style unique to the world of wine – the style that put Australian wine in the realm of global fine wine – and a style which we are truly proud to be its upholders of." Dave Powell - Winemaker & Proprietor Neldner Road