Technical Details:
- The Wine
Obsidian is hand crafted wine — we grow the grapes specifically, hand select the ultimate sections in the vineyard, vinify separately and then only the best barrels make the cut, ensuring only 1% of our total shiraz production makes the Obsidian grade. Winemaker Mike Brown's philosophy is simple — minimal intervention across all stages of the winemaking process.
- Colour
- Mulberry with black hue
- Nose
- Smoky bacon, liquorice, bitter chocolate, plums, liquor coffee, chorizo. currants, dried plums, crushed almonds.
- Palate
- A multi layered generous and hugely complex wine. The dark chocolate and red berries flow richly onto the palate combining with complex savoury oak that paves the way for a seamless finish. The highlight of this wine is the persistence - which we attribute to the balance of flavour, acid and tannin. This wine will reward those with patience and I am thinking 2018 would be a good start date.
- Food
- Parmesan Cheese or Medium rare fillet steak
- Suggested recipe
- Cellaring
- 10+ years
- Vintage Notes
The 2008 vintage continues a remarkable decade of harvests in Mclaren Vale, joining 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. An almost perfect growing season paved the way for a vintage where all the strongest parcels of fruit were picked in ideal conditions.
