Michael Hall Barossa Valley 'Stonewell Road' Shiraz 2022

This progressive wine emphasises fruit definition and energy from a great “climat”: Evan and Tina Gobell’s Stonewell Road vineyard sits at 255m elevation on red loam over clay peppered with ironstone. It has a gentle westerly aspect and is pruned to grow low yielding, early ripening and intensely flavoured fruit. Leading into the 2022 vintage fair winter rains were punctuated by a rare hailstorm in late October 2021, damaging young shoots and reducing yields. There followed a mild summer and unusually temperatures never exceeded 40C. Handpicked on the 3rd of March, 50% destemmed, 50% whole bunch, wild fermented in open fermenter, pressed to French oak, matured for 20 months in barrel (15% new, Saint Martin Reserve).
1550 bottles produced. Alc.14.2%

1550 bottles produced.

Tasting Profile

Aroma:

Blackberry, Blueberry, Pepper

Palate:

Blackberry, Fruit Cake, Tobacco

Food Pairings:

Pork

Red Meat