Bindi-Pyrette-Heathcote-Shiraz-2020
Bindi-Pyrette-Heathcote-Shiraz-2020

Bindi Pyrette Heathcote Shiraz 2020

Sale price$37.95
Heathcote, Victoria, Australia

Style: Red Wine

Variety: Shiraz

Closure: DIAM Cork

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Bindi Pyrette Heathcote Shiraz 2020

Camberwell

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Burke Road
Camberwell VIC 3124
Australia

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Producer: Bindi

Country: Australia

Region: Heathcote

Vintage: 2020

Critic Score: 94

Alcohol: 14.0%

Size: 750 ml

Drink by: 2035


Full bodied. Youthful and still coming together. Simply a matter of time - Jane Faulkner

Description

Pyrette Heathcote Shiraz is a side project for Michael Dhillon, winemaker at Bindi Wines in the Macedon Ranges. The wine is made using fruit sourced from a vineyard near Colbinabbin on the Mt Camel Range in Heathcote. It's a stylish and pure example of Heathcote Shiraz, picked earlier for freshness and unadorned by excessive oak. 

The project now goes back nearly two decades, to 2001. The seasonal stamp is always there; the Pyrette Shiraz is not a formulaic wine scrubbed and rubbed into an overriding house style, for the harvest date and winemaking is focused on ensuring a balanced wine that shows the markings of the year. As James Halliday says, a Pinot Noir winemaker's Shiraz.

"An exuberant purple red, with wafts of charry smoky oak, cured meats and the darkest fruit spiked with spices. Full bodied, yet a gloss throughout and while the tannins still feel somewhat raw, that points more to the fact the wines is youthful and still coming together. Simply a matter of time."  Jane Faulkner

"The 2020 is a delicious and harmonious continuation of the style showing complex dark fruits, savouriness, spice and graphite. The palate is initially supple and fleshy then builds intensity for a long and balanced finish. It will become more complex and textured over the next six years.

The wine is sourced from an impeccably sited and managed vineyard near Colbinabbin on the Mount Camel Range. The specific parcel of vines is at the highest block on deep red, rocky Cambrian soils on a cooler easterly facing slope. The picking date is carefully assessed in order to capture fruit vibrancy and freshness, whilst capturing the typical mouthfilling richness and length of the region.

The wine is made in 1000 litre open vats, fermented with ambient yeast and matured in French barrels, 10% new. The yield, harvest date and winemaking are deliberately aimed at producing a wine of regional authenticity in a style highlighting fragrance, vitality, finesse and harmony. Production is typically 800 dozen per vintage."  Michael Dillon

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Victoria is home to more than 800 wineries across 21 wine regions. The regions are Alpine Valley, Beechworth, Bendigo, Geelong, Gippsland, Glenrowan, Goulburn Valley, Grampians, Heathcote, Henty, King Valley, Macedon Ranges, Mornington Peninsula, Murray Darling, Pyrenees, Rutherglen, Strathbogie Ranges, Sunbury, Swan Hill, Upper Goulburn and Yarra Valley.

Victoria's first vines were planted at Yering in the Yarra Valley in 1838. By 1868 over 3,000 acres had been planted in Victoria, establishing Victoria as the premier wine State of the day. Today, the original vineyards planted at Best's Wines are among the oldest and rarest pre-phylloxera plantings in the world.

Victoria's climate varies from hot and dry in the north to cool in the south and each wine region specialises in different varietals. For example, Rutherglen in the north is famous for its opulent Muscats and Topaque and bold reds, while the many cooler climate regions near Melbourne produce world class Chardonnay and pinot Noir. Victoria is truly a wine lover's playground.