Longhop-Shiraz---Adelaide-Plains
Longhop Shiraz - Adelaide Plains
Food Paring
Try with any barbequed meats
Tasting Tips
Inky purple. Fresh raspberry and blueberry on the nose, with sexy vanillin oak and baking spices adding complexity. Explosive blue and dark berry flavors are strikingly deep and sweet, with no obvious tannins and zero herbal character to distract from the fruit. Not a complex wine but utterly delicious, with a gently spicy finish featuring persistent red and dark berry flavors.The determined Dominic Torzi and his mate Tim Freeland manage here to make a soulful red with all the comforting plum pudding richness which made our Shiraz popular to a world whose critics suddenly despise this character.But it also has a savoury, dry stony base, which by all rights and means should reverse their disdain. It has the thick texture which makes the amarone dried fruit stylesdistinctive, but counterpoints that with beautiful acidity and the sort of terroir-sourced schist rock/sandstone tannins which cannot fail to make the drinker yearn for warm antipasto, tapas, mezes, or big field mushrooms,root veg and dribbling steak. Rated 92 points.By Philip White - Adelaide ReviewSaturday May 5, 2010
Winery
The Longhop and Old Plains range of wines are produced by Domenic Torzi (pictured left) and Tim Freeland. The former Gawler high school mates first mooted the idea of making icon wines from the Adelaide Plains in 2002. Vineyards were secured, the requirement being old vines a priority. Our small band of growers have embraced the ideal of delivering premium grapes in order to showcase the power and rich fruit flavours the Adelaide Plains has to offer."...escaped the vine pull of the 1980s."Great wine begins in the vineyard and for Old Plains and Longhop nothing is more important. Our vineyards are unique, remnant plantings that have survived urban expansion and the pursuit of other agricultural profits. They also escaped the vine pull schemes that were popular during the 1980s.These government sponsored schemes saw old, low yielding vines uprooted with the help of subsidies and replaced by cash crops of vegetables and wheat. In some instances vast tracts of old vine shiraz was replaced by chardonnay! What a waste.The remaing small vineyards are true masterpieces of wine grape flavour, weathered, gnarly and magnificent in their defiance of commercial expansion."...hand made wines."Wine made by flavour not by numbers, is one way of describing our approach to winemaking. Its a year round, hands on approach that makes our wine unique. The hard work never seems to end but seeing the wines evolve over time is truly rewarding.
Bottle Size: 750ml
Brand: Longhop
Region: South Australia
Vintage: 2009
In Stock: Yes
Price Range: $0 - $15
Bottle Price: $17.10
Case Price: $205.20
