About this WINE
The Mt Hillary Wine Co.
The Mount Hillary label wine is made from a private selection of grapes from the estate, in conjunction with Teresa Nobilo-Healy, granddaughter of pioneering winemaker Nikola Nobilo OBE.
The sole aim of Mt Hillary is to hand craft premium parcels that are a true and honest reflection of pure regional, varietal and winemaker expression.available only in a small, 500-case lot, and offered exclusively to BBR in the UK.
Syrah/Shiraz
A noble black grape variety grown particularly in the Northern Rhône where it produces the great red wines of Hermitage, Cote Rôtie and Cornas, and in Australia where it produces wines of startling depth and intensity. Reasonably low yields are a crucial factor for quality as is picking at optimum ripeness. Its heartland, Hermitage and Côte Rôtie, consists of 270 hectares of steeply terraced vineyards producing wines that brim with pepper, spices, tar and black treacle when young. After 5-10 years they become smooth and velvety with pronounced fruit characteristics of damsons, raspberries, blackcurrants and loganberries.
It is now grown extensively in the Southern Rhône where it is blended with Grenache and Mourvèdre to produce the great red wines of Châteauneuf du Pape and Gigondas amongst others. Its spiritual home in Australia is the Barossa Valley, where there are plantings dating as far back as 1860. Australian Shiraz tends to be sweeter than its Northern Rhône counterpart and the best examples are redolent of new leather, dark chocolate, liquorice, and prunes and display a blackcurrant lusciousness.
South African producers such as Eben Sadie are now producing world- class Shiraz wines that represent astonishing value for money.
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Sourced from the Gemtree Winery, a quality-oriented estate, established in 1998 in South Australia's McLaren Vale. Mike Brown, chief winemaker, believes in working in close harmony with the estate’s viticulturalist, all the more feasible in this scenario as that role is filled by his wife Melissa! Premium shiraz fruit from vineyards has been farmed biodynamically since 2008 and the estate is ‘in conversion’ certified organic. The essence of Mike’s winemaking philosophy is to intervene as little as possible and therefore to make wines which are allowed to express their origins to maximum effect.
Recognition has been swift to arrive: The wine was awarded 5 stars in James Halliday’s highly respected reference book on Australian wines in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Mount Hillary label wine is made from a private selection of grapes from the estate, by Teresa Nobilo-Healy, granddaughter of pioneering winemaker Nikola Nobilo OBE. The sole aim of Mount Hillary is to hand craft premium parcels that are a true and honest reflection of pure regional, varietal and winemaker expression, available only in a small, 500 case lots. This wine is offered exclusively by BBR in the UK.
Mark Pardoe MW, Wine Director
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