Winemaker’s Notes: The Shiraz fruit is from low yielding vines and was harvested at the appropriate time to ensure optimum balance, ripeness and intensity of flavour. They were destemmed; berries not crushed or pumped to preserve their physical integrity and transferred to a majority of open 4000 L wooden and some stainless steel 5000 L vats. The Viognier was co-fermented with Shiraz in the stainless steel vat to preserve fruit flavour intensity. A combination of different maceration times (mainly pumping over) from 12 to 24 days on skins and a majority of the batches were naturally fermented. The wine was aged in French oak for 18 months.

Tasting Notes: Very deep red colour, the aroma has intense ripe red and black fruits with no overt jammy elements and some complex spiciness and savoury elements and slight Viognier aromatics. The palate is complementary to the aromas, rich, round and moderate in weight with intense fruit and some savoury, earthy elements, lovely framing spicy persistent tannins and lingering balanced mineral acidity. The wine is very complex and represents the classical Bendigo terrior in an excellent year. Although the wine is rich, it is ironically still “tight” and therefore, will also benefit with aging.

Awards

2004 95 Points- James Halliday 2007 Australian Wine Companion

2005 95 Points- James Halliday 2008 Australian wine Companion

2006 95 Points- James Halliday 2009 Australian Wine Companion

Tasting Notes:

The Wine Front -Campbell Mattinson (Feb 09)

This is the third Turners Crossing red I’ve tried in recent weeks and it’s good too; they clearly have an excellent handle on both growing quality grapes and turning them into wine.

Super stylish. Deliciousness plus. It’s roasted and spicy, blackberried and chocolatey, and while it’s got a good amount of sweet fruit impact it’s also savoury and grainy and, dare I say it, classy. Dry, lengthy, A-grade tannins and a good balance between straight-out flavour and complexity. Fantastic wine.