Ravensworth Shiraz Viognier 2021
$46.99
SPECIAL BUY 6 or more. Limited time only at Special Price. 95 points, Halliday
Description
‘Someone asked me the other day something to the tune of ‘who are the next generation of newer generation producers who will truly create a legacy in Australian wine … I would put Ravensworth and Bryan Martin firmly in the list. No misses from him. Building a formidable argument to prestige.‘ Mike Bennie, The Wine Front.
‘As a talented food writer, cook and forager, Bryan Martin thinks deeply about textures and flavours. This combined with over a decade’s experience at Clonakilla, has resulted in a suite of distinctive Ravensworth wines’ Huon Hooke, Gourmet Traveller Wine.
Bryan Martin was assistant winemaker and ‘right hand man’ to Tim Kirk at Clonakilla for 20 years. However Ravensworth has been he and wife Jocelyn’s passion since 2001. Finishing up at Clonakilla in 2019 he focuses solely now on Ravensworth in Murrumbateman in the Canberra district.
Clonakilla has often been thought as the leading winery in the region but Ravensworth has gained much success and critical praise including winning the International Riesling Challenge in 2012 and in 2015 he was runner up Winemaker of the Year for Gourmet Traveller Wine. “..Bryan’s been an extraordinarily great blessing to our business.” Tim Kirk, Clonakilla.
Martin’s approach is deliberately unconventional – he produces a range of brilliant, regionally classic wines, offset by a decent smattering of genre-bending experiments. Shiraz is the main crop on the Ravensworth Estate, followed by Riesling and Sangiovese. Then there’s Rhône white varietals such as Marsanne and Roussane plus Gamay and Nebbiolo. Not only does Martin use a wide range of varieties, but clonal differences across these are also utilised for complexity and tonality.
Everything at the Estate is grown with organic principles and the vineyard is consciously farmed as an element of a wider ecosystem in balance with other flora and fauna so it can develop to its greatest potential. This balance limits any chemicals or other nasties. A little old Italian tractor is employed rather than heavy machinery, and likewise in the cellar, the winemaking uses a light touch. There’s no recipe—a range of techniques and vessels are used, always dependent on what the vintage presents.
The Estate label wines feature a beautiful and evocative label which Bryan says “.. are a take on what we would have as a coat of arms … a visual depiction of how we see wine and food. Entwined, joyous, slightly nervy.”
Bryan Martin says about this 2021 release .. “It’s back and looking amazing. From the first of a trio of cooler years we see more spice and savoury notes. Two years in production with the second in large seasoned French oak foudre.”
Fruit is sourced from 25-year-old vines grown on granite at 650 metres elevation. The fruit was processed as whole berries in cuve, spending four weeks on skins before being pressed to barrique for 12 months. It was then racked to foudre where it rested for a short while before being bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Worth the wait for this stunning release, detail, focus and balance. Do not miss this.
95 points, Jane Faulkner for Halliday Wine Companion “Shiraz with a 4% glug of viognier, co-fermented, and gee it adds a lot to the palate, plumping it out, and aromatically, adding some florals. Although in unison, this is lovely, peppery, spicy, tangy and savoury. Medium bodied, fine acidity, silty tannins and moreish to the last drop.”
95 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front “From the organic farmed estate vines of the Martin family in Murrumbateman. Matured in old puncheons and foudre. Oh, beautiful. With concentration but coolness. Like a chamomile tea-soaked flannel on the eyes after too much sun. Red fruit, ripe and rich in the mix, floral lift, meadow herbs and fennel with gentle cinnamon spice notes – wonderful characters for scents and flavours. It feels sleek and lengthy, gentle but with a building framework of fine tannin lacing it all together. Superb.”
RRP $56 Our Special Price $46.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine – for a limited time only at this price!
Additional information
Producer | Ravensworth |
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Region or Country | Australia, Canberra District, Murrumbateman |
Variety | Shiraz, Shiraz Viognier |
Vintage | 2021 |
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