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NOTES
With a booty of 17 Gold Medals to date, Grant Burge's Filsell vineyard, bearing century-old vines, is considered one of the best in the Barossa, consistently yielding fruit of great intensity and concentration. Grant Burge's Shiraz success has been built on the quality of fruit available from the prized Filsell vineyard. Not only do these near century old vines power the revered and highly sought after $100 flagship Meshach, they underpin the success of Burge's appropriately-labelled Filsell Shiraz.
The 2005 growing season was warm, which allowed for the development of good varietal characters and fruit ripeness. The fruit was picked at 15º Baume.
TASTING NOTES
This exceptional Barossa Shiraz is rich ruby in colour with complex aromas of dark chocolate, rich spices and ripe raspberries plus vanilla bean and a touch of mint. The palate exhibits flavours of raspberry, black plum and kirsch combined with toasted oak. The wine is dense and complex; has long chewy tannins and a velvety intensity of flavours that show excellent persistence and length. Deserving of an equally impressive food match, the Filsell is well suited to dishes such as roast beef with a rich tomato ragu or rare kangaroo fillet with a garlic polenta mash.
OTHER NOTES
Grant Burge's raging shiraz success has been domeonstratably built on the quality of fruit available from his prized Filsell vineyard. Not only do these near century old vines power his revered $100 flagship Meshach, thye underpin the success of Burge's appropriately-labelled Filsell shiraz, which pleasingly provides change from $30.
'The Filsell vineyard produces just on 1.5 tonnes of fruit per hectare, delivering fruit of optimum intnesity and concentration,' enthuses Burge, the Barossa's largest independent grower.
Burge rates his latest Filsell shiraz from the 2005 vintae- as one of the finest in the past decade.
'Although it is already showing greatness, I'm convinced its best years are ahead of it. - John Fordham, Sunday Telegraph, October 2007
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