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NOTES
Founded in 1866 in the Great Western wine region of Victoria, Best’s Great Western is one of Australia’s oldest continuously family owned and operated wineries. Until the 1950’s, Best’s red wines were labelled Claret and the white wines were labelled Hock and they were bottled for customers both in Australia and overseas on demand. In the 1960’s, Best’s began to release varietal labelled vintage wines.
Today’s market is rediscovering the attractions of the classic values of drinkability, structure and texture in Shiraz. Understated richness with elegance and spice, approachability and food friendliness are the hallmarks of Bin 1 Shiraz.
Given the inevitable scarcity of Best’s Thomson Family and Bin 0 Shiraz wines, Bin 1 Shiraz is the wine that gives people their first taste of our style of Great Western Shiraz. Made predominantly from Best’s own vineyards and meticulously crafted with the same attention to detail as the flagship wines, Bin 1 Shiraz represents the essence of Best’s Great Western’s winemaking ideals and the uniqueness of the Great Western region. Bin 1 is a classic, cool climate, aromatic Shiraz, made in a style that is floral, spicy and peppery and yet retains the fruit characteristics and intensity. It is a well balanced wine with no dominance of alcohol.
Winemaker Adam Wadewitz notes that “this wine is made in an elegant, approachable style. We want people to understand that this is a wine made to drink now and enjoy the flavour profile from Shiraz made in the Great Western region. Bin 1 is a great accompaniment to food, and meant to celebrate the years of learning and winemaking history from Best’s Great Western. I feel very privileged to be making a wine that has the same care given to it as our Flagship wines, but sells at a more affordable price for many more consumers to enjoy.”
TASTING NOTES
Rich, inky red with purple hues; leads to a bouquet of vibrant lifted aromatics displaying fresh red berries and purple fruit, with classic cool climate pepper and spice, and delicate floral characters. On the palate, a regional voice speaks through this wine. A balanced and alluring floral and spice note. This is a medium bodied wine with texture, sitting comfortably within a framework of classic ‘cool-climate’ Shiraz. The palate is long and mouth filling with great mid palate generosity, rolling tannins and wonderfully integrated oak.
REVIEWS
Good colour; abundant pepper and spice notes run through both bouquet and the medium-bodied palate; the fruit flavours are of plum and black cherry, the tannins soft and fine, oak merely a bit player. Screwcap.14.5% alc. Rating 94 Drink 2018 James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2010
A lovely, elegant, effortlessly balanced and beguilingly drinkable young Shiraz. Perfumed, with traces of mint, berries, spice and violets. It's very intense without being heavy or overbearing. Light on its feet, well structured to drink or cellar. 95/100 Huon Hooke, SMH Good Living Feb 9, 2010
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