Bellevue Estate Basket Pressed Shiraz 2017
Style: Red Wine
Variety: Shiraz
Closure: Screwcap
Bellevue Estate Basket Pressed Shiraz 2017
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Burke Road
Camberwell VIC 3124
Australia
Producer: Bellevue Estate
Country: Australia
Region: McLaren Vale
Vintage: 2017
Critic Score: Not Rated
Alcohol: 14.5%
Size: 750 ml
Drink by: 2027
"This basket press shiraz is made on site in Bellevue Estate's own micro winery. Fermented in small two tonne open fermenters prior to basket pressing with a limited release of only 600 to 1000 cases. After cold soaking, 10% of the juice is run off to intensify colour and flavours. The fermenters are hand plunged prior to traditional hand rachet basket pressing. All wine is matured in French and American oak hogshead barrels for eighteen months. The wine is made with minimal intervention with no added tannins or finings.
The 2017 Bellevue Estate Basket Press Shiraz is a medium body Shiraz with delicious harmony of fruit, spice and oak. The opulent flavours are seductive and addictive: dark berries and chocolate and good oak including lashings of vanilla - delicious silky tannins and a long finish - you won't be able to stop at a single glass! A must try if you like Australian basket press shiraz - especially at this price!" Bellevue Estate
Awards
Runner Up – Edinburgh Shiraz Challenge
Silver Medal – Boutique Wine Awards
Silver Medal – Australian Small Winemakers Awards
Silver Medal – Winewise Small Vigneron Awards
Bronze Medal – London International Wine Challenge
Bronze Medal – Great Australian Shiraz Challenge
Bronze Medal – Royal Adelaide Wine Show
Bronze Medal – Perth Royal Wine Show
About the winery
Bellevue Estate is a family owned winery in the township of McLaren Vale. They produce only one product, a single vineyard Bellevue Estate Basket Pressed Shiraz. The wine is a regular winner at the Edinburgh Shiraz Challenge and the recipient of awards at other top national wine competitions such as the Great Australian Shiraz Challenge.
The Bellevue Estate Vineyard and Winery are located on the main street road in the township of McLaren Vale. The Vineyard is planted to ten acres of Shiraz. Owner/winemaker/viticulturist Corey Vandeleur hand planted both the original five acre north/south facing vineyard and in 1977, the remaining five acre east/west facing vineyard (with Calius cuttings from Steve Maglieri's vineyard). The vines sit on a foot of red and brown loam over lime and ironstone. With a vacant 20 acre cash crop on the seaward side, the vineyard enjoys the benefit of the cooling afternoon sea breezes provided by the St Vincent Gulf to compliment the warm ripening days.
In 2007, declining prices for contract-grown grapes led to the decision to build a winery on the main street in front of their vineyard. In that same year they made their first vintage. All wine is made on site in the micro winery. The wine is fermented in small two tonne open fermenters prior to basket pressing with a limited release of only 600 to 1000 cases.
Corey Vandeleur
"Corey Vandeleur's venture may be a small one, but it has been planned to the last degree, and backed by Corey's very impressive history in winemaking. While he has no formal qualifications, he was born and bred in McLaren Vale, and began as a cellar hand at Maglieri Winery in 1990, where he remained for the next seven years; next a vintage at Geyser Peak, in California; thence to South Africa; next three vintages in Bordeaux. A decade at Hardys Tintara followed before he created the Bellevue Estate label." James Halliday
South Australia
South Australian is responsible for more than half the production of all Australian wine. It is home to more than 900 wineries across 18 wine regions. The regions are Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Plains, Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Coonawarra, Currency Creek, Eden Valley, Kangaroo Island, Langhorne Creek, McLaren Vale, Mount Benson, Mount Gambier, Padthaway, Riverland, Robe, Southern Fleurieu, Southern Flinders Ranges and Wrattonbully.
Many of the well-known names in the South Australian wine industry established their first vineyards in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The first vines in McLaren Vale were planted at Reynella in 1839 and Penfold's established Magill Estate on the outskirts of Adelaide in 1844.
South Australia has a vast diversity in geography and climate which allows the State to be able to produce a range of grape varieties - from cool climate Riesling in the Clare and Eden Vallies to the big, full bodied Shiraz wines of the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale. Two of Australia's best-known wines, Penfolds Grange and Henschke Hill of Grace, are produced here. There is much to discover in South Australia for the wine lover.