2024 Shiraz

2024 Flying Fish Shiraz
Variety: 100% Shiraz
Region: 100% Margaret River
Sub Region: Wilyabrup
Cellaring Potential: 5-7 years
Colour: Deep garnet/purple
Bouquet: A wonderful bouquet of blackberry, liquorice, exotic spice, plum and dark cherry.
Palate: The palate of this wine is all about purity of fruit and an elegant balance of dark and brooding fruit characters and the gravelly, ferrous tannins so often seen in red wines from Margaret River.

Gold Medal 2024 Margaret River Wine Show (95 points)
Halliday Wine Companion (91 points)

"A delicious yet simple offering appropriate at this price point. Made without any new oak so it’s about freshness and drinkability today. Spiced dark plums and squishy raspberries flavoured with tamarind and Middle Eastern spices. Barely medium bodied with light, textural tannins and lemony acidity that keep this buoyant." - 91 points, Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion.

The 2024 vintage delivered some impeccable parcels of fruit, and this Syrah style wine is no exception. We decided to bottle this wine earlier than in previous years as we wanted to capture the vitality and freshness of the intense black fruit characters. Tightly woven and intense in its youth, we expect this wine to evolve and unfurl over the coming years.
 
Winemaking

Machine picked fruit from the Ridge Farm vineyard is delivered to the winery where it is crushed and de-stemmed to a static fermenter. During the fermentation the wine is pumped over the skins twice a day to facilitate colour and tannin extraction.

Maturation for this wine was held in a mix of seasoned French oak Puncheon and Barrique.

This wine has been filtered and bottled without any additional finings and is a great representation of a modern Syrah style wine.

Viticulture

Grown on the Ridge farm property in Wilyabrup. Managed using an open and sprawling style of canopy allowing for maximum light penetration which in-turn encourages development of ripe red and black fruit characters.

Alc%: 14.1%
pH: 3.67
TA: 6.56g/L
RS: Dry