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2001 Hanging Rock Heathcote Shiraz Winery: Hanging Rock Vintage: 2001 Region: Macedon Ranges Bottle Size: 750ml Variety: Shiraz Price: $75.00 The 2001 Heathcote Shiraz is the fifth release from our ‘Athols Paddock’ vineyard and this vintage includes fruit from the Colbinabbin vineyard and the Joe Marton vineyard. All the fruit is handled separately at every stage of winemaking, right up to the assembly of the final blend. We have absolute control over all components. It continues the high standards of its predecessors, with which we collected two Trophies and forty four Gold Medals. The 2000 vintage won a Trophy and 8 Gold Medals in International and Australian wine shows during 2002. In 2001 we had an extremely dry season, however we were saved by 4" of rain in January and so avoided stressed vines and associated lower yields The 2001 vintage has already received two ‘Very Highly Commended’ awards as a barrel sample at the 2002 Ballarat Wine Show (‘Very Highly Commended’ for a barrel sample is the equivalent of a Gold Medal awarded to a bottled wine). This is the second vintage to make use of new, ‘steam-bent’, medium toast, American oak barriques that engender a smoother, subtler oak character in the wine, and with less vanillan influences. The wine was matured in this oak for eighteen months. Our Heathcote fruit is always picked on flavour, and in this aspect of the wine we are aiming for consistency. The new oak is subtler, smoother and more integrated, the fruit characters are more prominent. It is a rich, elegant wine, beautifully balanced and with great cellaring potential. The colour is deep, intense purple/mulberry and the nose exhibits elegant, plum/berry aromas with a gentle oak presence and some mintiness. On the palate it has a silky texture, complexity, delicious plummy berry flavours and a good balance between the fruit, oak and tannin. Alcohol is 14% by volume. As far as cellaring is concerned, try not to uncork this wine for at least five years. Ten to fifteen years would be even better. John Ellis, Winemaker