Hewitson Falkenberg Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021

The Falkenberg name is a famous one in the Barossa – growers, winemakers, local identities. For the team at Hewitson, it symbolises ‘the heritage of the Barossa Valley’. This is the first release under this name since the 2018. The vines here are 25 years old and the wine was open vat fermented for three weeks, destemmed, and made with “maximum whole bunches”. It was then matured for 18 months in French oak barriques, 25% new. Bottled under cork, a deep gleaming purple, this is a cracking Barossa Valley Shiraz. Rich, complex and full of flavour, we have notes of dark chocolate, blueberries, mocha, plums, cloves and leather – gorgeous stuff. This is seamless with very fine, silky tannins, excellent length and intensity which never drops. A wine which will sail through the next fifteen to twenty years.