2016 Lone Goose Shiraz Viognier

The Lone Goose is a Shiraz Viognier blend sourced from a 25 year old vineyard block on our Roennfeldt Road estate,  co-fermented with a small amount of Viognier (3%). The Shiraz and Viognier grapes are hand-picked, destemmed and fermented using indigenous yeasts in 5 tonne open top fermenters. At the completion of fermentation, the wine is basket pressed and filled to seasoned French oak barriques for 20 months.
 
The wine is purple-black in the glass, displaying aromas of mocha and dark chocolate with blueberry compote, grilled peaches, fragrant blue violet florals and subtle notes of crushed gum leaf and bay leaf with hints of cedar spice. The powerful palate is rich with sweet flavours of wild raspberry, strawberry and rhubarb which coat every surface of the mouth. Dusty French oak tannins encompass the sweet red fruit, with a nice fine acid line providing focus and direction. Subtle peach like flavours from the Viognier add further complexity.
 
An elegant wine that is drinking beautifully upon release, but will continue to provide drinking pleasure for many years to come.

Reviews

“Includes 3% co-fermented viognier, hand-picked, destemmed, wild-fermented in open 5-tonne pots, basket-pressed to used French barriques for 20 months. A (probably intended exercise comparing the outcome of oak selection) less dense wine, the fruit more obvious thanks to co-fermentation and no new oak. It's still formidable, but moves around the mouth with greater freedom, with an easier texture.”

96 points, James Halliday – Halliday’s Wine Companion

“A deep, imposing purple colour. Blackest plums, then red plums and blackberry jam. It's fruit-driven and vivacious. Texture is important here - luscious purple berries slink easily along the palate. It's painfully bright and juicy and short on structure. It is still, a lovely wine.”

94 points, Nick Butler – The Real Review

Tasting notes are available, please email us to request.