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Charles Melton Barossa Valley Shiraz 2003 (Museum Release)

Charles Melton Barossa Valley Shiraz 2003 (Museum Release)

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Variety: Shiraz
Country, Region: South Australia, Barossa Valley

‘Small darkly coloured berries were the result of the lowest yielding year since the 1995 drought. The resulting wine has superb cedar and spice aromatics and an intense but supple structure, rounded and made more complex by 18 months maturation ‘sur lie’ in French and American oak barriques. Crushed, fermented and matured at our Krondorf Road winery.’ Charlie Melton, Winemaker.


 

Charlie Melton needs no introduction. Since his first vintage in 1984 and on to his first vintage of Nine Popes in 1988 and beyond he has been a leader of the Barossa Valley. Importantly, he was one of the first to recognise the value of the Barossa’s old plantings of Grenache, Shiraz and Mataro, at a time when the S.A. Government launched the infamous Vine-Pull Scheme, paying growers to remove these so unproductive vines!

And thank goodness he did! Since those early days, the range of Charles Melton Wines has expanded, with total plantings today of just over 34 hectares, the majority being old vine plantings in Krondorf, Lyndoch and Rowland Flat. Indeed, the very oldest of these (at Rowland Flat) will be celebrating their centenary in 2027.

As if this pedigree needed any endorsement, the 2014 Nine Popes was awarded the trophy for Best Australian Red at the 2017 International Wine Challenge in London. Today, Charlie has been joined by daughter Sophie as winemaker, further underwriting the future of this much admired and celebrated family business.

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