The Wine

All the fruit used in the Smythe Road Pure Barossa Shiraz is estate grown. The vines are trellised on a single wire with foliage wires to maximise fruit exposure and flavour enhancement.

The fruit is hand picked with crop level of 2.5 tonnes per acre achieving approx Baume level of 14.5 in the field.

The fruit is then crushed and transferred to single batch open fermentation where it remains on skins for 7 days to allow for maximum extraction of fruit flavour.

The wine is then pressed to tank where is allowed to undergo malolatic fermentation prior to going to barrel for 18mths. The oak is approx 30 % new wood and predominately French with several Mendicino American oak barrels and a touch of Russian for structure. The wine is racked out of barrels 3 times and this allows for minimum filtration into bottle.

The wine is then bottle aged for an additional 6-9 months prior to release.

Pure Barossa Shiraz