Heartland Wines 2020 Shiraz (6 Bottles ) Langhorne Creek, 92 Points

by CellarHand

$151.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Reviews

It’s beautifully aromatic with dark berry, vanilla, roasted nut, smoked game and cocoa aromas, combined with gorgeously rounded palate delivering lovely fruit intensity and fleshy texture. Soothing and splendidly appealing. At its best: now to 2029.
93 points. Sam Kim, Wine Orbit

There’s a genuine honesty to this wine. No affectations: it’s all about pure shiraz in its plum-fruit expression with neatly teased spice – a touch peppery – that gives lift and energy to the fleshy palate. Older-oak maturation over 12 months has added backbone, too. The sweet varietal fruit is more than celebrated, in an everyday manner that still has a note of tannin definition and finish. Excellent value. 92 Points -Tony Love, Halliday Wine Companion

A purple rim encompasses a core of deep ruby. The aromas are surprisingly dominated by red rather than black fruits and hints of spice. The blackberry fruit of the palate is accompanied by a playlist of spices, with cinnamon and licorice on high rotation.

The Shiraz was de-stemmed, crushed and pumped over twice a day for ten days. The wine was matured in older oak barrels for twelve months prior to bottling.

Steady winter rainfall and multiple flood events gave us a good storage of moisture and healthy vines leading into the growing season. Higher than average summer temperatures have offered up robust fruit characters that Shiraz loves to present.

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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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