Place Of Changing Winds Harcourt Syrah 2021 (6 Bottles) Heathcote

by Fine Wine Cellars

$299.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

As noted above, there is also a small volume of Syrah No. 2 available at $21.00 LUC. Please contact your Account Manager for information and availability.

The Heathcote Syrah was fermented naturally with 100% whole bunches. There were varying levels of crushing and time on skins, including some full carbonic. Our ethos is always to use whole-bunch and whole-berry fermentation to bring perfume and finesse to the natural power of Heathcote.

Fermentation was in concrete and steel tanks and the maturation was mostly in large, neutral oak (Stockinger), with some in older barrique and concrete tank. Less than five per cent of the oak was new. Following our successful experiments with longer aging, we are now starting to extend the maturations for these wines; the 2020 Syrah matured for 18 months (as opposed to 12 months for the 2019 release).

For those who tasted last year’s release, the 2020 is certainly deeper and darker in its personality; there’s a dense core of spicy fruit, excellent complexity and fine, powdery tannins. Despite the wine’s intensity, there’s plenty of detail, purity, and excellent balance. You can drink it now, but it will certainly age for up to 10 years and beyond.

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About Place of Changing Winds

Place of Changing Winds is the vineyard project of Bibendum wine importer’s founder and owner Robert Walters. It is a single site in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria where Walters and his team began planting in 2012. It is a very rocky, gravelly soil and historically this soil type was called “Bullengarook gravel”.

Place of Changing Winds is an organic, high-density vineyard located in Bullengarook, a small hamlet in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria. Changing Winds takes its name from the original inhabitants, the Wurundjeri people, who named the place where the vines are currently planted Warekilla (or Place of Changing Winds). This characteristic still holds true today.

Situated at 500 metres above sea level, the ancient soils here are riddled with quartz, quartzite and sandstone and only Pinot Noir and Chardonnay is grown. The vines are planted very closely at a range of densities—from 12,000 to 33,000 vines/ha. The average density is over 15,000 vines/ha. Through decades of research and engagement we have developed our own version of organic practice, a model specifically adapted to our place and our vision. This model is designed to produce wines of the highest possible quality and the maximum expression of place. Our motto: no compromise, no regrets!

We also produce two Syrah cuvées and a 100% Marsanne that come from an organically managed plot of vines in the Heathcote region (about 130 kilometres north of our cellars).

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