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BACKGROUND
Michael and Annabelle Waugh are uncompromising in their desire to produce the best possible wines. Established in 1978 on the western edge of the Barossa Valley, in the rolling hills between the hamlets of Greenock and Marananga, Greenock Creek only produces 2500 cases a year. Its first release was in 1988. A disciple of Rocky O’Callaghan from famed winery Rockford, Michael Waugh is no stranger to the ultra premium wine scene. In fact, only grapes grown on the property are used, making it truly an estate winery and with fans like Robert Parker Jnr., these wines have attracted a cult following in the same vein as Chris Ringland’s ‘Three River’s Shiraz and Rockford’s ‘Basket Press’ Shiraz.
Another example of young vines making profound wines. Spending 26-28 months in old American oak barrels and small foudres (hogsheads), these wines are bottled unfiltered, and exhibits the intense extract, and style unique to Australia. Made from ultra ripe fruit, they show purity of the Shiraz grape, rarely seen, without being monolithic or heavy.
TASTING NOTES
"...Shiraz Apricot Block represents a spectacular example of Barossa Shiraz. Made from 10-year-old vines cropped at 1-1.5 tons per acre, it is a dense, full-bodied Shiraz possessing fabulous intensity, great purity, and a multi-tiered, skyscraper-like mid-palate. It can be drunk young or cellared through 2018-2020."
16.5% Alc.
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