Old Plains Longhop Shiraz 2015 CONFIRM 2015 VINTAGE

Longhop Shiraz 2015 - Buy
Shiraz Adelaide Plains South Australia
Adelaide Plains Shiraz, and what great wine it makes, graceful, generous and stylishly balanced. The vineyards speak in the final wine, every expression from the intensely flavoured grapes, picked off vines, fifty years of age, is captured and retained. Earthern ironstone and quartz laced textures of the foothills and north ranges, smooth ferments and fine colour, lively peppery notes are indicative of old vines fruit. The inaugural vintage of Longhop Shiraz was a sellout and runaway success after being the subject of ecstatic praise from industry press.

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Longhop is a robust style in every sense, distinctive, vinous, full bodied and complex. Shiraz is sourced off a selection of vineyards across the Adelaide Plains and Mt Lofty Ranges, much of the harvest off vines fifty years of age, each bringing its own expression of mesoclime and personality to the finished wine. Components are treated to a partially wild yeast, whole berry ferment in small open top vessels with soft pump overs and minimal plunging, before being treated to an old fashioned basket press and completing ferments in barrel. The finished wine is matured eighteen months in a selection of seasoned French and American oak barriques and hogsheads before an unfiltered bottling. Alcohol 14.5%
Dark, deeply coloured. Aromatic ark cherries and spice, chocolate and plums. Heady fresh red berries and spice flow on to the palate, pepper notes against a background of earthy, ripe raspberries and cherry emerge with air. Flavours follow through with lots of intensity and bountiful ripeness to cap off the long savouryness, finishing with a close of persistent, juicy fine tannin.
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The challenge began when it was decided to fashion hand made wines from precious fruit grown to superlative sites which escaped the vine pull of the 1980s

The Longhop and Old Plains range of wines are produced by Domenic Torzi and Tim Freeland. The former Gawler high school mates first mooted the idea of making icon wines from the Adelaide Plains in 2002. Vineyards were secured, the requirement being old vines a priority. The small band of growers have embraced the ideal of delivering premium grapes in order to showcase the power and rich fruit flavours the Adelaide Plains has to offer.

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Great wine begins in the vineyard and for Old Plains and Longhop nothing is more important. The source vineyards are all unique, remnant plantings that have survived urban expansion and the pursuit of other agricultural profits. They also escaped the vine pull schemes that were popular during the 1980s.

These government sponsored schemes saw old, low yielding vines uprooted with the help of subsidies and replaced by cash crops of vegetables and wheat. In some instances vast tracts of old vine shiraz was replaced by chardonnay! What a waste. The remaing small vineyards are true masterpieces of wine grape flavour, weathered, gnarly and magnificent in their defiance of commercial expansion.

The American importer of Old Plains and Longhop wines, Vine Street Imports hosted their first ever range tasting at Philadelphia in 2008. With 20 plus Australian and New Zealand winemakers in attendance, Vine Street sent out invites across the US states to distributors, retailers and trade punters. With approx 120 wines on offer and approx 400 attendees on the day, they were treated to possibly the most diverse wines ever shown in USA. Old Plains launched Raw Power Shiraz with great success, described as the wine of the tasting for delivering value for money, quality and a sharp marketing edge. American consumers have since embraced Raw Power for its sheer quality.

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