Cahoots Barossa Valley Shiraz 2012
Style: Red Wine
Variety: Shiraz
Closure: Screwcap
Cahoots Barossa Valley Shiraz 2012
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Burke Road
Camberwell VIC 3124
Australia
Producer: Cahoots (Sons of Eden)
Country: Australia
Region: Multi Regional SA
Vintage: 2012
Critic Score: 96
Alcohol: 14.5%
Size: 750 ml
Drink by: 2030
Produced by the formidable team of Corey Ryan and Simon Cowhan (the winemaker and viticulturist behind the Sons of Eden venture), the 2012 Cahoots shiraz is a wonderful follow-up to the 2009 vintage which proved to be one of our best selling wines. The 2012 Cahoots shiraz is a blend of fruit parcels specially selected from the Barossa Valley & Eden Valley.
"The 2012 Cahoots is a full bodied shiraz, brimming with blackberry, plum and cherry fruits. The finish is long, layered and powerful. A very impressive wine, that is drinking superbly at 10 years of age. One of our biggest selling wines for a reason." Nick Munday
Expert reviews
"Produced from parcels of fruit specially selected from the Barossa Valley & Eden Valley, the 2012 Cahoots is a full bodied shiraz, brimming with blackberry, plum and cherry fruits. The finish is long, layered and powerful. A very impressive wine, that is drinking superbly at 10 years of age. One of our biggest selling wines for a reason." Nick Munday, Canterbury Wines - 96 points and Special Value Wine ★
Awards
Special Value Wine - Canterbury Wines ★
About the winery
When winemaker Corey Ryan and multi-skilled viticulturist Simon Cowham established Sons of Eden in 2000, they already had years of experience in South Australia's Barossa and Eden Valleys.
Ryan has racked up more than 25 Barossa vintages and worked in New Zealand with Villa Maria Estates; he was awarded 2007 New Zealand Winestate Winemaker of the Year. Back home, he was a 2016 finalist in Gourmet Traveller Wine's Australian Winemaker of the Year. But it was his time as a winemaker at Henschke that lit his fire for the Eden Valley.
Cowham's early days included selling OddBins wines in its glory days, returning from England to work for the Winemakers' Federation of Australia. He switched to grape growing by qualifying as a viticulturist and joining Yalumba as manager of its Heggies and Pewsey Vale vineyards in the mid-'90s. In 2013, Barons of Barossa anointed him Barossa Winemaker of the Year. He, too, has 25-plus Barossa vintages under his belt.
More than 25 vineyard sites across the Barossa and Eden Valleys supply fruit to Sons of Eden: 10 are directly managed and operated by the label, the rest supplied by handshake agreements with their loyal generational growers. The success of the arrangement is demonstrated by three Most Successful Exhibitor awards from the Barossa Wine Show, two Winewise Small Vigneron Awards and an unbroken annual stream of five-red-star ratings from 2012 to now.
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.