2012 Schild Estate Ben Schild Reserve Shiraz

Sourced from a single vineyard this wine was created as a tribute Ben Schild who began the family’s long association with winemaking and viticulture. 2012 was a stunning vintage in the Barossa with mother nature gifting winemakers with the perfect environment to produce outstanding wines like this. The wine was fermented in small open fermenters before being matured in a combination of French, American and Hungarian oak for 24 months and then undergoing a further 12 months maturation in bottle prior to release.

A Superb Barossa Shiraz with a huge core of plushly textured fruit and liqueur like richness

Magnificent totally opaque inky black colour with a very deep dark red black hue. Intense aromas of liquorice, ripe blackberries and dark plum dominate over some smoky vanillin oak and spice. Extravagantly rich and opulent the palate is saturated with luscious ripe blackberry, liquorice and dark plum flavours followed by toasty vanillin oak and spice. A plush fleshy texture is framed by velvety tannins. Excellent power with a very long aftertaste of ripe blackberries, liquorice, dark plums, toasty vanillin cedar and spice.
Cellar 5-6 years.
Alc 14.8%