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Torbreck The Steading Grenache Mataro Shiraz
Deep, dark ruby red. Redolent and aromatic, gamey notes against cherry and spice, expressing thick chewy raspberry-liquorice and herb laden earth, dark currants and blackberry. Assertively complex and rustic, characters of nutmeg and cloves, cinnamon and measured chocolatey oak, there's sweet plums and tarry essences all over the nose and the palate, reams of fruit, palatial with cherry-like tannins, a distinctive, velvety red.
The Steading is perhaps the most important wine within the Torbrecks portfolio, the one that best exemplifies what Torbreck is all about. It is sourced from vines that survived the vine-pull scheme in the early 1980's, cultivated on their own roots that were unaffected by phylloxera.
It also best explains Dave Powell's serendipitous discovery of some withered ancient vines, some well over a century old, that he carefully nurtured back to life. Protecting and nurturing the old vine resources of the Barossa Valley is paramount to him and this wine, more than any other is an indication of what is possible from the now protected ancient Barossa cultivars - Grenache, Mataro & Shiraz.
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