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UPC code: 8 53065 00000 9
2010 Thorn-Clarke, William Randell, Shiraz, Barossa Valley 6/750ml
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UPC code: 8 53065 00000 9
2008 Thorn-Clarke, William Randell, Shiraz, Barossa Valley 6/750ml
VINTAGE CONDITIONS
2008 was a very warm year with
harvest being completed in a very short period. The resultant
wines from the vintage reflect the growing conditions with
loads of upfront fruit and rich mouthfeel, meaning wines from
this vintage will have a great deal of aging potential as well.
WINEMAKING
The grapes are crushed and de-stemmed into
open fermenters. Yeast is added immediately and the grape must
pumped over twice daily to maximise color, tannin and flavor
extraction. Cooling is used to ensure ferment temperatures
remain in the 22-25 degrees Celsius range, which allows the
fruit to display maximum fruit expression. Pressing occurs
approximately
seven days after crushing and the wine is
then put into French oak to complete fermentation. All small
premium barrels remain separate to ensure the best blend is
put together.
BARREL AGING
24 months 100% French oak,
100% new.
COMMENTS
The colour is a deep inky purple.
The nose is complex with a deep concentration of black fruits,
liquorice and spicy chocolate oak. The palate is full bodied
with typically intense Barossa Shiraz fruit. The fruit
characters are blackberry and
plum, with well balanced oak.
Additionally the palate is dense and generous making it
wonderfully mouth-filling and with some lovely grainy tannins,
it suggests the wine will improve for the next 10 to 15 years.
This wine has fantastic length of fruit and oak flavors.
CELLARING POTENTIAL
10 – 20 years.
Named in honor of a family descendant who built and captained
paddle steamers on the River Murray last century, this wine
can rightfully claim super-premium status. Excellent quality
selection of Barossa fruit. Aging in American and French oak
barrels.
"Dense, deep
purple-crimson; an enormously concentrated and powerful
Shiraz, with so much depth to its black fruits and
accompanying tannins it is hard to visualise how long it will
take to open up and mature, but the balance if there. Drink to
2030"
- James Halliday (Australian Wine Companion),
95 pts
"Ripe
and broad, with a purity of spicy, coffee-accented berry and
purple plum flavors that ride over a plush texture and linger
on the rich but balanced finish. Best from 2012 through 2018.
1,000 cases made. –HS"
- Wine Spectator (October 15th 2011), 90 pts
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UPC code: 8 53065 00000 9
2006 Thorn-Clarke, William Randell, Shiraz, Barossa Valley 6/750ml
"Thorn-Clarke
makes a luxury bottling, the 2006 William Randell Shiraz. It
is a glass-coating opaque purple color with an expressive
bouquet of balsam wood, Asian spices, incense, game,
blueberry, and licorice. Structured on the palate, it has
layers of savory black and blue fruits, good balance, and a
lengthy finish. Give it another 4-6 years of bottle age and
drink it from 2014 to 2026."
-
Wine Advocate (Dec. 09), 91+ pts
"Bright,
generous and focused, brimming with juicy blackberry,
licorice, mint and cream flavors that linger easily as the
finish sails on and on. Stylish and graceful. Drink now
through 2020.”
- Wine Spectator (July 09), 93 pts
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2005 Thorn-Clarke, William Randell, Shiraz, Barossa Valley 6/750ml
"Seamless,
long and juicy, this vibrant and supple shiraz presents a rare
level of freshness and brightness for this Barossa vintage.
Scented with violets, blackberries, cassis and sweet new oak,
it's generous, finely balanced and mouthfilling, tightly
integrated with fine, smooth tannin and refreshing, lively
acidity."
- Jeremy
Oliver, Australian wine writer and sometimes wine critic for
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
94 pts
"Saturated
ruby. Dark berry liqueur, cocoa powder, tobacco and vanillin
oak spices on the nose, plus a subtle graphite undertone.
Broad and fleshy, offering sweet and spicy blackberry, cassis
and candied licorice flavors, and picking up a cherry-cola
quality with air. Becomes brighter and more tannic with air,
with the tannins adding shape and structure to the sweet,
oak-accented fruit. Very sexy wine, with impressive energy for
its size."
-
International Wine Cellar (Sept 2008), 92
pts
"There's
no mistaking this Barossa Valley wine for anything other than
Aussie shiraz: explosive with jammy blackberry and minty
flavors leading to a long, rapturous finish. "Fine
tannins," taster Nadine Brown wrote, while Slater noted
"satisfying flavors and good balance of components."
Luskin ignored the tannins and just wrote, "Winner, hands
down."
- Washington Post (Nov 2008) - "EXCEPTIONAL"
National
Retail Price: $49.95 /
bottle
"Your flagship wine,
the William Randell Shiraz is an amazing wine. Buries
everything in its path. The 2005 vintage in a blind tasting
that we hold at our home every year in Nantucket,
Massachusetts at the wine festival, beat many excellent wines
including the 2006 Caymus SS. This was the second year in a
row that it won easily. You would be well served to set up a
table at the Nantucket event in the Spring as your wines will
get a ton of visibility, especially the WR. If you are
interested, contact Denis Toner who is the founder of the
event. Thanks for making fantastic wine. All the best, Mark."
- Mark Schobel, White House Station, NJ
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2005 Thorn-Clarke, William Randell, Shiraz, Barossa Valley
6/1.5L
National
Retail Price:
$78.95 /
bottle
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