Aramis Vineyards White Label Shiraz Cabernet 2008

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Aramis Vineyards- Multi-Award Winning Wine, 100% McLaren Vale, Family owned & Estate Grown Aramis Vineyards wine is synonymous with premium wines from South Australia’s McLaren Vale wine region being awarded over 80 medals in International and Australian Wine shows in recent years.

Our vineyards in McLaren Vale are planted on their own rootstock in some of the world’s oldest mineral rich soils and in the most temperate of Mediterranean climates.  Only the best parcels of fruit are carefully selected throughout the vineyard and utilized in the Aramis Vineyards label. Great attention to detail with the integration of fruit flavours and fine oak barrels helps produce classic handcrafted wine styles. Lee Flourentzou, the General Manager of Aramis Vineyards, has pursued his passion to produce rich and intensely flavoured red wines. He purchased a 70 acre plot of land, 7 km outside of the township of McLaren Vale back in 1998. He now has 64 acres planted, the majority of which is dedicated Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon vines.

TASTING NOTES

Exhibits a deep ruby/purple colour. The nose offers mulberries, blackberries and plums with layers of dark chocolate, toasty oak and wafts of fresh mint. On the palate blueberry, black raspberry and tarry characteristics, wonderful intensity, supple integrated fruit tannins and a long finish, all in balance with the alcohol.

REVIEWS

Dense purple-red; that regional dark chocolate fires the opening salvo on the bouquet and medium- to full-bodied palate; however, there is a more than ample offer of blackcurrant and blackberry fruit to provide flavour balance, fine tannins and oak filling out the finish. Rating 94 James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2011