The Lucky Country Shiraz 2014
Syrah/Shiraz
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
2014
Size
750ML
ABV
14.5%
Features
Screw Cap
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Made using simple, natural techniques, Lucky Country Shiraz is minimally fined and unfiltered. The wine starts out layered and concentrated, then reveals a much softer side on the finish. It's full of dark fruit and mocha flavors, with vanilla bean and spice notes. Flavors of Chocolate, Dark Fruits, Herbs, Mint, Plum, Spices, Vanilla
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Rich, full bodied and plush, with mochaccino-like fruit and plummy notes. This Shiraz is warm and inviting, picking up hints of vanilla and mint along the way. The velvety finish lingers.
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The Lucky Country is synonymous with Australia, the phrase having first been coined in the book of the same name in 1964 by Donald Horne. The phrase was initially used as an irony mocking the fortune of the post-colonial Australians of the 1960s.
Since then it has become a descriptive label for Australia and its wealth of natural resources, beautiful weather, stunning landscapes and relaxed lifestyle. It is the same slice of fortune that allows the fertile soils of Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale to yield such lush, vibrant fruit from which The Lucky Country is made.
By contrast, Lucky Country Shiraz is made in a simple, natural fashion, with individual parcels of fruit fermented, pressed and barreled separately until blending just prior to bottling. Minimally fined and unfiltered, the wine starts out layered and concentrated, then reveals a much softer side on the finish.
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