Gemtree Shiraz Uncut McLaren Vale 2018
95 POINTS! Why...you could buy a $300 Napa Cab, you could buy a $600 Burgundy, you could...buy a rock n rolling, white-knuckle Shiraz from your happily besotted friends in Napa for….well, ya gotta click to see!!
We say this every time we offer an Aussie red, but it’s true...like everything we taste and buy and end up offering you lovely people...WE ARE extra-gnarly SUPER PICKY about our Aussie wines. We like rich, but well-done ones, we like them without giant gobs of pokey, sticking-out things. We like ‘em sexy and harmonious, savory and impression-making. Not sure if it’s the prominently noted biodynamic and organic (and vegan!) farming and winemaking or what, but this hit all our buttons, not to mention the rip-roaring price!
This has attention-getting black fruits and a freshness that just cuts across your brain and starts your salivary glands firing big time. Figs, wild blackberries, toasty black cherries (is toasty black cherries a thing? ‘Cause that’s what we’re gettin, so it is today!). Tons of cool mint and mulled spice character, clove, and a sense of energy that keeps this going -- it’s not heavy, but dancing and popping with all manner of cool stuff. Just how we like it! Did we mention 95 POINTS and well under $20??!
At Gemtree we have been gifted the opportunity to work a unique patch of the earth in South Australia’s McLaren Vale. By respecting and nurturing this land we harvest high quality, flavourful grapes each and every vintage from vineyards farmed with care.
Uncut is the first wine we made, a distinctive McLaren Vale Shiraz. It is generous, layered, bright and textural.
Low preservative Vegan friendly
Technical Details
Country: AustraliaRegion: South Australia
Appellation: McLaren Vale
Varietal: Syrah
Winemaker: Mike Brown
Farming: Certified organic and biodynamic
Alcohol: 14.50%
About The Producer
More than 40km south of Adelaide by the old road, McLaren Vale has attracted winemakers, vignerons and visionaries for more than 180 years. Already a major wine region in the 1880s it was a century later that Paul and Jill Buttery purchased a plot of land named Gemtree off the narrow gum-lined track that is Elliot Road.
Some 14 years after establishing the vineyards, Paul and Jill were issued a somewhat surprising request by their daughter Melissa, who had returned to South Australia after finishing a business diploma and exploring the world.
Melissa: “I want to work in the vineyards.”
Paul: “I’ll give you three weeks.”
That was 1994, and in the ensuing decades, Melissa not only worked the vineyards but became a qualified viticulturalist, a well-regarded expert in biodynamic and organic farming and married a boy called Mike Brown, who is now Gemtree’s chief winemaker and managing director.
Living in one of Australia’s most celebrated natural regions has given Melissa and Mike a mindfulness about the environment and the earth. They were growing organic fruit and vegetables in their backyard and, knowing there had to be a way to sustainably grow and farm grapes, they decided to take that philosophy into the vineyard.
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