- Cinnamon and spice cloves linger on the palate
- Fresh crushed red berries overlaid with spice
- Garnet red with purple hues
Serafino Malpas Shiraz (6-pack) 2016 x6
Wine Region
MCLAREN VALE
Drink Until
2026
Varieties
Shiraz (100%)
Alcohol
14.5%
Foods
red meat, cured or marinated
Oak
Matured for six months in four year old French oak hogsheads.
Colour
Garnet red with purple hues
Nose
Fresh crushed red berries overlaid with spice, licorice, violets and cherry tones.
Palate
Cinnamon and spice cloves linger on the palate with long chalky tannins, bright flavours bursting with amazing freshness and texture. This wine is well structured and well balanced and only lightly oaked to allow clear expression of its site characteristics. Showing a full mid palate with underlying McLaren Vale 'chocolate' fruit cake.
Background
The grapes for this wine are selected from our Malpas Road block in McLaren Vale, South Australia. Located high on the ridge along Malpas Road with a southern aspect the soils are dark blackbrown and self mulching over a limestone layer. Block 2 has had careful irrigation and specific canopy management to increase and intensify the bright rich, spicy fruit from the Malpas Road district. This is a single vineyard wine with 100% of grapes from the Malpas Vineyard. The vineyard was planted in 1999. The clone of grapes used is 1654.
