Greenock Creek 2010
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Established in 1978, Greenock Creek is located in the Barossa Valley (SA), where some of Australia’s most prestigious and prized wines are being produced. Greenock Creek wines were first released in 1988 and since then the name has become synonymous to quality and perfection. They specialize in producing super premium reds from old and low yielding vines and use only grapes grown on the property, making it truly and estate winery. Greenock Creek Wines, have in many ways become an Australian icon in producing the “Big Reds” and enjoys a cult status as prices overseas have reached stratospheric heights. All Greenock Creek wines have received scores of 90 and over from US wine writer, Robert Parker Jr. The fact that only 2500 cases in total are produced each year is also a major factor in its overwhelming demand. Greenock Creek Wines are only sold in a few select retail outlets in Australia, making it quite a difficult commodity to obtain as stock is quickly sold to customers that are lucky enough to be in the know.
Barossa Valley 2008 Vintage Overview
Overall wine quality for the 2008 vintage is regarded as excellent. Despite the March heat wave and the attention it attracted, 2008 was a slightly cooler vintage due to the earlier ripening and the unusually mild February weather. These conditions encouraged excellent colour, flavour and tannin development with varieties such as Shiraz showing great flavour vibrancy and richness. The 2008 season and vintage period also showed how well many growers adapted in an environment of extremes with the effective management of water even more critical throughout this period.
BUY PERIOD: AUGUST 11 ‘til AUGUST 18 (Winery cut off orders for us is 19/08)
The wines will be made available to us the week beginning September 11 and depending on the speed of Australia Post, we expect them in hopefully by the end of that week. Once in, shipping will commence to all approved orders. Full payment is required prior to dispatch. All approved orders will be billed from August 18 as we will need to pay the winery on August 19th prior to the wines coming across. We may have to adjust orders depending on quantities ordered.
DUE TO SCARCITY, ORDERS WILL BE CONFIRMED VIA EMAIL.
The current vintages have not been reviewed as yet so we have included notes/reviews from previous vintages we have on hand.
Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2009
The Grenache “Cornerstone” was sourced from 62-year-old vines and aged in a mix of new and used French oak. It is dark ruby-colored with a nearly exotic perfume of smoke, Asian spices, rhubarb, and black cherry. Sweet and seamless on the palate, it is intense, full-flavoured, pure, and very long. Drink it now and over the next 10 years.
2005 Vintage 93 Points - Wine Advocate #173 Oct 2007
Greenock Creek Cabernet Sauvignon 2008
On opening, there’s a thick layer of home-made play dough seemingly holding this wine’s fruits down. Ever so gradually they ooze through, heavenly-scented, juicily-fruited, but rail track smooth and polished for the long haul. The flavours are about as intense as a piece of railway line, too: streamlined and steely. As they draw ever on, they’re joined by tannin that’s not quite as coarse as railway ballast, but it’ll certainly preserve everything you’ve already noticed for a couple of decades. As the oxygen ever so gradually works its way into that solid compaction, the gravels subside into much more comforting velvet, and the steely chassis of the best Greenock cabernets yet made. It’d be nice if there were enough bottles to check it every week for about twenty five years.
2005 Vintage - 94 Points - Phillip White, 1st August 2007
Greenock Creek Seven Acres Shiraz 2008
The 2004 Shiraz “Seven Acres was also aged for 28 months in used American oak. Inky purple-colored, it offers up an enticing perfume of smoke, earth, mineral, licorice, blueberry, and blackberry. Medium to full-bodied, ripe, and intensely flavoured, it offers just slightly less complexity than its siblings, but at this level, and in this context, that is a minor quibble. So rich that it can be enjoyed now, it will nevertheless evolve for several years and drink well through 2020.
2005 Vintage – 95 Points - Wine Advocate #173 Oct 2007
Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2008
The 2005 Apricot Block Shiraz received the same upbringing as the Alice’s and is a similar glass-coating, opaque purple. An enticing perfume of cedar, scorched earth, pepper, violets, bacon, and blueberry leaps from the glass. A bit more restrained (a mere 15.0% alcohol) than its siblings, it is nevertheless a silky, layered, intensely flavoured Shiraz with gobs of fruit and a 60-second finish. It should provide much pleasure from 2012 to 2025.
2005 Vintage – 95 Points - Jay Miller, Wine Advocate # 181, Feb 2009
Greenock Creek Alices Shiraz 2008
The Shiraz “Alice’s Block” receives the same 28 months in used American oak. The riveting nose of smoke, asphalt, earth, truffle, blackberry, and blueberry roars from the glass. Dense, packed, and opulent, it somehow is able to concurrently exhibit finesse and elegance. Amazingly pure and long in the finish, one’s first reaction is that it cannot get any better. Remarkably, it does. Greenock Creek Vineyard and Cellars, owned by Michael and Annabelle Waugh, is one of the Barossa’s benchmark wineries. Start with a great terroir, add in old vine material, and meticulous winemaking and the results are usually extraordinary.
2004 Vintage – 98 Points - Wine Advocate #173 Oct 2007
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