Shiraz / Syrah Mixed Vintage Auction (0011-10702840)

Lot : 0011

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	0011-10702840
Part of Sale	Fine Wine: Single Cellar Perfection - 5 Star!
Warranty	No Warranty Applies. Warranty No Warranty Applies.

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Item includes;

Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2005 (1x 750mL)

Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2008 (1x 750mL)

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

Expert Reviews

95 points, Dr Jay Miller - Wine Advocate - 2005 Vintage

The 2005 Apricot Block Shiraz received the same upbringing as the Alice’s and is a similar glass-coating, opaque purple. An enticing perfume of cedar, scorched earth, pepper, violets, bacon, and blueberry leaps from the glass. A bit more restrained (a mere 15.0% alcohol) than its siblings, it is nevertheless a silky, layered, intensely flavored Shiraz with gobs of fruit and a 60-second finish. It should provide much pleasure from 2012 to 2025.

95 points, Phillip White - 2008 Vintage

Drought seems to have smitten the Apricot Block with quite a lot of Roennfeldt's character this year, which is not all that surprising, given the vineyards are adjacent, albeit with very different geological terroir. Maybe in the dry, the roots that reach deepest are the most dependable ones, and the Apricot Block roots may well be through to the bottom of their creekline alluvium, and now take some flavour from the same ancient basement rocks as their hillside neighbours. This is certainly a very acrid wine: it really tickles the nostrils with carbon and almost burnt coffee bean woody lignins. Some of this is probably oak-derived, but healthy grapes have more lignin in drought: they put on the toughening woodier cells as protectives. These notions are more vivid as you drink the wine: it's another lithe slinker, but it has very recently rolled in the dust. As for fruit? Well, imagine you're somewhere between August Clape's Cornas and the best dry year Vacqueyras, then add the Australian dust. Now there's some hybrid terroir for the English. Of the 08s, this is my equal favourite. With the Grenache, which grew just up the slope on Roennfeldt's. That's no fluke.

Winery Tasting Notes

2005 Vintage - Totally opaque inky black colour with a deep very dark red black tinged hue. Aromas of ripe black plums and liquorice are followed by fennel, some vanillin cedar and spice. Full bodied, rich ripe black plum, liquorice and ripe blackberry flavours saturate the palate over a backdrop of fennel, dark chocolate, vanillin oak, a touch of leather and spice. Very concentrated and rich with no apparent heat on the finish. Velvet smooth tannins finishing very long with an aftertaste of black plums, liquorice, fennel, vanillin oak, leather and spice.

Other Information

Mixed Vintage
2 x 750mL units
SA - Barossa, South Australia
Cork closure

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Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2005/2008 (2x 750mL), Barossa. 5* Prov!

Closed: 26 October 2021 20:00 AEDT

Sold for $120

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