Shiraz Blends 2003 Auction (0004-10713487)

Lot : 0004

Overview

Condition	Cellared
GST:	Inclusive (GST Not Applicable on Item, See below note)
Buyers premium	17.50%
Deliver to	Nationwide Delivery
Category	Private Cellar
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Lot ID	0004-10713487
Part of Sale	Australian Heritage Wine
Warranty	No Warranty Applies. Warranty No Warranty Applies.

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Region:: SA - Barossa
State:: South Australia
Country:: Australia

Expert Reviews

The proprietary blend of 50% Shiraz, 34% Grenache, and 16% Mourvedre, the 2003 Olive Hill is a deep ruby/purple-tinged offering with a sweet perfume of raspberries, cherries, plums, Allspice, new saddle leather, and toasty oak. Super-ripe, concentrated, and strikingly elegant with marvelous equilibrium, it can be drunk now or cellared for 6-8 years.

Readers should not confuse Burge Family Winemakers (one of Australia’s finest wineries) with the much larger firm of Grant Burge. Burge Family Winemakers’ old vine estate-bottled offerings, made by the modest, but enormously talented Rick Burge, are classic Barossa wines with extraordinary elegance as well as complex aromatics that combine European subtlety with Australian power. - The Wine Advocate

Winery Tasting Notes

The blend is composed of 50% Shiraz, 34% Grenache and 16% Mourvedre. The grapes have been grown on limestone rich soils and matured in French oak. Very deep crimson colour with deep crimson hue. Perfumed nose of raspberry, violets, spice and cedar. Raspberry, liquorice, black pepper and spice flavours are on the palate and supported by dry chalky tannins, which are persistent.

Winery Profile

The Top 8th Winery in Australia as rated by Robert Parker.

The Burge Family Winemaking tradition first started in the late 1860s with John Burge, who migrated to South Australia from Wiltshire (UK) in 1855. By the turn of the century production ceased and all equipment was sold by John’s son Meshach, and it wasn’t until 1928 that John’s grandson ‘Percival’ recommenced winemaking. Times were tough and about to get worse with falling grape prices and an impending depression.

With determination and a growing reputation for the quality of his wine, Percival’s business steadily grew and in 1950 he was joined in the winemaking responsibilities by his son Noel Burge, being one of Australia’s first qualified winemakers by graduating from the first intake of Roseworthy Oenology students in 1938.

In 1986, Noel was joined in-turn by his son Richard (Rick) who, having purchased the shareholding off other family members, immediately set about revitalising the family firm.

Success soon followed, by way of not only wine show trophies and gold medals, but also, more importantly, a steadily increasing band of satisfied customers who would purchase all of the output direct from Rick Burge’s stylish cellar-door at Lyndoch.

View Burge Family Winery website

Other Information

2003 vintage
12 x 750mL units
SA - Barossa, South Australia
Cork closure
15% alc.

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Burge Family Winemakers SGM Olive Hill 2003 (12x 750mL) Barossa Valley, SA

Closed: 11 August 2022 20:10 AEST

Sold for $140

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