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Under the Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 it's an offence:
- to supply alcohol to a person under the age of 18 years )
Penalty exceeds $6,000)
- for a person under the age of 18 years to purchase or
receive liquor. (Penalty exceeds $500)
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Red Wine > Cabernet Sauvignon & Blends > Oliver’s ’Taranga Vineyards’ Corrina’s Blend Cabernet Shiraz 2006
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1839 was the year in which William and Elizabeth Oliver arrived from Scotland to settle at McLaren Vale. Six generations later, members of the family are still living on the Whitehill and Taranga farms, 2kms north of McLaren Vale. The Taranga property has 12 varieties plantedon 92ha; historically grapes from the property have been sold to up to 5 diffeent wineries, but since 1994 some of the old vine Shiraz has been made under the Oliver's Taranga label. From the 2000 vintage, the wine has been made by Corrina Rayment (the Oliver family's first winemaker and a sixth generation family member). James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2006
Corrina Rayment is the sixth generation of the Oliver family to work on the Taranga property. Grapes from this vineyard find their way into Penfolds Grange and Eileen Hardy Shiraz. No mean feat.
TASTING NOTES
The Corrina's Shiraz Cabernet is madde via a technique called co-fermentation where by the fruit is blended in the vineyard and fermented as one, rather than making a separate Shiraz wine and Cabernet wine and blending afterwards. This is a very old technique, and is a favourite of our winemaker for this wine.
Deep dark maroon in colour, the senses are filled with tarry rich Cabernet which dominate the nose, with a chocolate background from the Shiraz. Intense. The palate displays dark fruit characters,a huge weighty mid-palate gives an exposion of flavour, followed by rich fine grained tannins. A quite savoury finish.
OTHER NOTES
..a quirky winemaking venture where the two varieties are picked at the same time if the vintage permits, the shiraz co-fermented over cabernet skins, resulting in a wonderfully vibrant expression of this style, strangely old school but full of superb fruit and fun drinking .
..the silky, drying tannins provide a good mouth feel and firmly back this ample-weight wine that has a diverse complexityTORBwine, 2007 SA Tour Diaries.
..There's complete intergration here, really assertive and fleshy fruit, berry and plum flavours all drawn into neat balance. Crafted with skill and attention to detail.. Adeliade Review, Top 100 2007
...it is a deliciously chocolaty wine, oozing plump, ripe fruit and a dense structure. It's perhaps a little more old school than the rest of the range interms of its more hefty alcohol and lush fruitiness, but I guess that's exactly what's called for with such a traditional blend.... Tony Harper, Brisbane News, December 2007
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