LVDO Wine Cellars

LVDO VERSIONS #3 Rare Aged Dry Red - Shiraz MV

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Complex | Harmonious | Textural

Ingredients: Grapes, 30 ppm sulphites

Vegan, unfined and unfiltered.

Multi-Vintage Vintage
Gully Winds Vineyard, Whites Valley, McLaren Vale
13.7% ABV
750 mL

Five vintages of Shiraz from the same 3 rows of the Gully Winds vineyard located in the Whites Valley district of McLaren Vale. This concept of multi-vintage blending isn't new but the purpose is quite unique. I wanted to create an ethereal/dynamic expression of this special vineyard (a counterpoint to the static, singular vintage expression). The idea came upon learning that the vineyard was sold and the new owner wanted to keep all grapes, so after 5 years we're going to lose access to the vineyard where LVDO started. I wanted to make a wine that captures the freshness and elegance of this cooler district (cooled by the Guly Winds) and celebrates the vineyard through its aging potential. And ambitiously, I wanted to break the mould of sweet, oaky McLaren Vale Shiraz with this rather savoury and vineyard-focused expression. It is still quite tight, and I find it is more expressive on day 2, of which I'm very pleased about.

Blend composition: 4% 2022, 28% 2021, 26% 2020, 37% 2019, 5% 2018
Wine making: wild fermentation, about 40% whole bunch, 20 days maceration on average, each vintage was aged in old (10 years +) French hogsheads for 10-14 months. The blend was aged in large demi-johns (neutral and inert vessels) for 2 months for harmony and integration. No additions or adjustments aside from a small SO2 at bottling. 150 bottles filled. 

93 points, Kasia Sobiesiak (The Wine Front)
"It’s sappy, smells of black pepper and wet forest, bringing a load of fresh, sticky black fruit with it. Wet concrete texture or granite traction, it’s meaty and salty-ferrous. Black liquorice pokes through. Dense velvety tannins start at the tip of the tongue with plushness and are pulled together by acidity in the backpalate becoming more focused and laser-like. The wine finishes on chocolate note, but all renders savoury and with medium body at most. Substantial."

 

93 points, Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)
"There’s freshness to this, a broodiness, too. It’s lithe in a savoury way, with a sour, red-berried tension, an old-school feel, recalling mid-weight wines of old. It’s a little tarry, malty, a seam of coal dust running through, fruits are both red and black, but there’s nothing juicy here. Iron and flinty rock, bay and cassia, white pepper and star anise, the tannic architecture giving lineal direction. It’s curious, and interesting."