Explore the cool climate origin of the Toolangi D Block Shiraz 2015 vintage. With aromas of plums, baking spices, and violet florals, this wine boasts a complex flavour profile with notes of liquorice, clove, and plum skin. Its coil-like texture and balanced weight culminate in a finish of graphite, rock, and sweet earth.
"Hand-picked, whole berries wild yeast open-fermented, matured for 14 months in French oak (30% new). Bright crimson-purple; highly fragrant and flowery, cool grown shiraz aromas set their own agenda, deftly opening the doors to allow the discussion to start. Sweet red cherry fruit, with a hint of forest strawberry, are given the floor, freed by the 13.5% alcohol, no heat, no eye-popping, just beautiful shiraz, unforced by new French oak." 96 Points - James Halliday, Halliday's Wine Companion, 11th July 2021
Established in 1995, Toolangi Vineyards is in the Yarra Valley adjoining the Toolangi State Forest. This single site vineyard on fine clay loam produces wines with distinctive personalities, each wine showing a strong sense of place. This Shiraz is made from low cropped and hand harvested fruit a selection of rows 24-34 of D Block, PT 23 clone on Paulsen from the original 1996 plantings representing the very best Shiraz this vineyard produces.
