Tasting Notes
Chapel Hill Road Block Shiraz Chapel Hill Road Block Shiraz is based on 1993-planted vines. The soil profiles comprise pebbly sandy soils over clay ‘interspersed by large slabs of ironstone and underlain by sandstone’. These are richly concentrated wines with impressive power and balance. (First Vintage – 2008)
G 95
2019 Chapel Hill Road Block Shiraz
Deep crimson. Intense blackberry, mulberry aromas with briary, praline, hint bush garrigue notes. Inky deep blackberry, dark chocolate, mocha flavours, fine loose-knit al dente/graphite textures and some chinotto, ferruginous notes. Finishes bittersweet with lovely mineral length. A very expressive single block wine, with superb fruit definition, density and vigour. Keep for a while to allow the elements to fold into each other. Matured in new (20%) and seasoned French oak for 20 months. 2024– 2032, 14.5% alc 2018 Chapel Hill Road Block Shiraz G 96 Deep crimson. Intense ripe blackberry, mulberry, elderberry aromas with mocha/dark chocolate notes. Very seductive blackberry, fig, elderberry fruits, fine chocolaty firm tannins and well integrated mocha, hint marzipan, roasted walnut complexity. Finishes chocolaty/gravelly firm with persistent sweet fruits. Very well balanced wine with lovely concentration and vigour. Drink now–2038, 14.5% alc 2017 Chapel Hill Road Block Shiraz G 92 Deep crimson. Attractive blackberry espresso mocha aromas with brambly/herb garden notes. Well concentrated blackberry, mulberry, roasted coffee, mocha flavours, fine leafy firm tannins, and fresh long persistent acidity. Finishes gravelly/al dente firm. Fleshy with a muscular frame. Medium-term drinking. Drink now–2032, 14.5% alc
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