Heartland Wines The Spice Trader Shiraz 2021 (12 Bottles ) Langhorne Creek

by CellarHand

$227.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Reviews
These Spice Trader wines are fabulous value. Lip smacking density reaches deep into your soul seeking your love. A flip on the previous vintage which was a Shiraz Cabernet. Blackberries and cassis reign supreme early flanked by exotic spices, mint, dried thyme and sizzling Szechuan pepper. Long and generous, that spice just rattles along. Take me along for the ride – please! Burgers and snags the go with this. Classic barbecue vino. Drink to five years. Score – 90/100

-Stuart Robinson: The Vinsomniac, November 2020

2017 will not last long as painstaking selection was necessary to get the quality to wanted and that meant there is not much to share. The very dark core of this wine stretches all the way to the ruby rim. The aromas re of freshly crushed blackberries and preserved cherries accented by hints of dark chocolate and cardamom. The palate echoes this with soft forward black fruit dominating anisette, persimmon and classic fruit cake notes. A long mellow finish completes the picture.

The Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon are fermented separately with specific parcels included for their ability to offer greater complexity and character. Time in barrel permits a softening of the wine’s structure. It also offers a complex expression of the fruit and helps the exotic notes of spice to be discovered.

We had our work cut out for us in 2017. Not all wines were made and there wasn’t much of the rest either. Reminiscent of long-past vintages, the grape harvest for 2017 kicked off a good two weeks later than the previous year in Langhorne Creek, with reds not hitting their stride until late March.

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Description

The Heartland story began in the late 1990’s when winemaker Ben Glaetzer became excited about the outstanding quality of fruit being grown in some of South Australia’s lesser-known regions, in particular Langhorne Creek.

Together with industry veterans, Scott Collett, Grant Tilbrook and more recently Nick Keukenmeester, they grew Heartland into an award-winning winery.

“A really important point I want to get across is we’re not a group of investors that have got together and poured cash into it for the sake of doing it. We are at the coalface of it.”

Today Heartland sources all of its fruit exclusively from Langhorne Creek and makes only red wines.

Heartland is the essence of Australia’s Langhorne Creek, a region that typifies Australian texture, balance and spice at its finest. Heartland grows and selects grapes with the most flavour per acre through careful vineyard management and years of collective expertise.

The brilliant Ben Glaetzer gives focus and expression to these flavours in the winery. Heartland is the place between the vines that offers the best view of the gum trees.

CellarHand

CellarHand is a fine-wine importer and wholesale distributor, with a portfolio featuring some of the most sought-after estates of Germany, Austria, France and Italy, as well some of the greatest producers from Australia and New Zealand. Our ethos has always been to build a portfolio as you’d construct the perfect wine list. We work with small, family producers who express the best of their regions. The wines we sell are the wines we enjoy, and the people who make them are like family to us. They are wines that taste of where they come from, and though they’re steeped in history and stamped with the signature of their terroir, they’re more than ever relevant – and desirable – to the Australian diner of today.

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