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Australia: South Australia
 Straddling the centre of the Australian continent, South Australia is the Australian wine industry’s ‘powerhouse’ State, producing most of Australia’s wine and boasting some of the oldest individual vines in the world.
The old vines found in South Australia’s Barossa Valley and Adelaide Hills, through their isolation, survived the great phylloxera plagues that wiped out the vines of North America and Europe, and somewhat later, devastated Australia’s eastern vineyards. Quarantine restrictions were introduced, saving South Australia’s vines from phylloxera, and ensuring the State retained its grape growing status.
In addition to being host to some of the world’s oldest vines, South Australia also has a diversity of regions ranging from the relatively warm temperate climate of the Barossa Valley through to the maritime precincts of the McLaren Vale, Southern Fleurieu, Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek regions on the Fleurieu Peninsula and across the cooler Adelaide Hills region to the hotter Riverland region on the Murray River.
The south-eastern part of the State includes the Limestone Coast zone and the 'terra-rossa' soils overlying limestone which give rise to distinct elegant reds of the Coonawarra region. The 'Limestone Coast' zone - which also includes the Padthaway, Wrattonbully and Mount Benson regions - is building its own reputation for wines that are not only influenced by the region’s eponymous limestone but the tempering breezes of the nearby Southern Ocean.
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| Henschke Abbots Prayer Merlot Cabernet 2005 - Adelaide Hills, Australia |
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Price: £37.50
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| Stephen and Prue Henschke, fifth-generation winemakers at the family cellars at Keyneton, selected Lenswood in 1981 as a new vineyard site, just 50km from their ancient Mount Edelstone and Hill of Grace vineyards.
At 550m, the Lenswood vineyard slopes offer not only beautiful views over the older vine country, but also higher rainfall and humidity at the right time of the year, cooler temperatures to retain natural acidity, and still enough s .. |
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| Henschke Cyril Henschke 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon - Eden Valley, South Australia |
| Bin No. HENSCHCS04 |
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Price: £57.00
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| The Henschke Cabernet Sauvignon label carries the name Cyril Henschke (1924-1979) as a tribute to one of Australia’s outstanding winemakers and pioneers in the production of varietal table wines. Cyril Henschke planted Cabernet Sauvignon at Eden Valley in the 1960s.
The Cyril Henschke 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon is a great vintage containing 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot grapes; all grown exclusively in the Henschke Eden Valley Estate vine .. |
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| Henschke Innes Vineyard Pinot Gris 2008 - Adelaide Hills, Australia |
| Bin No. HENSIVPG08 |
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Price: £20.50
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| The Henschke Innes Vineyard is 100% Pinot Gris grown by David and Annette Innes at Littlehampton in the Adelaide Hills.
Littlehampton, recently rediscovered as a grape growing area, lies on the eastern side of the Adelaide Hills. Viticulture was first established in the Adelaide Hills in 1839 by John Barton Hack near Mount Barker, just 5km from Littlehampton.
Pinot Gris, called Tokay d’Alsace in France, Grauburgunder in Germany and Pinot .. |
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| Henschke Johann's Garden 2006 - Barossa Valley, Australia |
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Price: £22.50
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| The Henschke Johann's Garden is aptly named as a tribute to the early Barossa Lutheran pioneers, many of whom carried the first name of Johann. Their toil, perseverance and conservatism in hardship has meant that the many generations that followed rejoiced in the riches of their prudent efforts. Barossa growers traditionally referred to their vineyard as their garden.
This traditional GSM blend is produced from low-yielding, old, gnarled, dry .. |
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| Henschke Keyneton Estate Euphonium 2004 - Eden Valley, South Australia |
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Price: £25.00
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| The Barossa hills village of Keyneton became a musical and cultural focus for early settlers, such as the Henschke Family Brass Band and the Henschke Winery. This brass band survived generations and featured wonderful wind instruments such as a B flat euphonium, cornet and E flat clarinet.
The Henschke B flat euphonium, a large brass wind instrument, was made by the famous Zimmermann factory in Leipzig, Germany, in the late 19th Century. It ha .. |
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| Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 2005 - Eden Valley, South Australia |
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Price: £53.50
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| Located high in the Eden Valley region of South Australia the Mount Edelstone vineyard (meaning gemstone) was planted by Ronald Angas in 1912 with Shiraz. The 90-year-old un-grafted dry-grown vines from this historic single vineyard are extremely low yielding, producing a depth of colour, concentration of flavour, length and maturity of tannins unique to old-vine Shiraz.
The 2005 Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz is deep crimson in colour; whil .. |
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| Hewitson Ned & Henry's Shiraz 2005 - Barossa Valley, Australia |
| Bin No. HEWNED2005 |
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Price: £12.75
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| Superbly sited vineyards grown on red soil over limestone (the classic terra rossa) provide the fruit for Hewitson’s Ned & Henry's Shiraz. After traditional fermentation the wine is pressed into quality French barriques, where the wine finishes fermentation and malo-lactic fermentation. The wine matures in these barrels for a total of about 15 months before racking. While the base wine has always been Shiraz, each year Dean blends a small proport .. |
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| Parker Terra Rossa First Growth 2005 - Coonawarra, South Australia |
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Price: £38.00
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| Integral to the style and quality of the Parker wines has been the unique meso-climate of its vineyard, located in the southern part of the Coonawarra.
Whilst the famous cigar shaped terra rossa strip is quite compact (at 1.5km x 15km) there are noticeable climatic and soil differences within the strip
that impart unique qualities on the wines.
Compared to the central and northern parts of Coonawarra Parker’s southerly site is less prone .. |
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| Peter Lehmann Black Queen Sparkling Shiraz 2005 - Barossa Valley, Australia |
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Price: £15.00
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| Sparkling Shiraz is a unique Australian wine style first developed in South Australia in the late 1800's. In the decades spanning 1930 - 1950 the Seppelt winery at Great Western in Victoria became the home of great Australian sparkling Shiraz, or sparkling Burgundy as it was commonly known at that time.
Peter Lehmann's chief winemaker Andrew Wigan grew up in a town close to that winery and those sparkling Shiraz held a strong attraction for hi .. |
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| Peter Lehmann Clancy's Red 2007 - Barossa Valley, Australia |
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Price: £8.50
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| ‘Australia’s Legendary Red Wine’, Clancy’s blend is a firm favourite with lovers of red wine.
Peter Lehmann’s winemakers follow the long Australian tradition of blending Shiraz (35%) with Cabernet Sauvignon (34%), but giving their unique touch with the incorporation of Merlot (26%) and Cabernet Franc (5%), to give a soft, approachable and richly enjoyable red wine.
Successive vintages of Clancy’s, have gained major American and UK recogni .. |
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