The 2009 Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Shiraz is a powerful, ultra-concentrated expression from one of the Barossa Valley’s most revered single vineyards. Roennfeldt Road is the crown jewel of Greenock Creek — a tiny, low-yielding site planted in the western Barossa’s deep, ancient soils. These vines produce exceptionally small berries with immense flavour density, resulting in wines that are among the most intense, deeply coloured, and long-lived Shiraz bottlings in Australia.
The 2009 vintage was warm and dry across the Barossa, delivering low yields and fruit of extraordinary concentration. In typical Roennfeldt fashion, the wine opens with heady aromas of blackberry liqueur, black plum, mulberry, cocoa, licorice, and dark cherry. Layers of espresso, roasted meat, vanilla bean, cedar, and warm spice follow, underscoring the wine’s opulent richness and complexity.
On the palate, the 2009 Roennfeldt Road Shiraz is monumental—full-bodied, texturally dense, and intensely flavoured. Waves of black and blue fruits envelop the palate, supported by muscular yet surprisingly velvety tannins. The oak, sourced predominantly from high-quality American barrels with some French influence, contributes notes of coconut, sweet spice, mocha, and smoky vanilla, integrating harmoniously with the wine’s brooding fruit core. The finish is exceptionally long and powerful, leaving lingering flavours of blackberry, dark chocolate, licorice, and savoury spice.
Now with more than a decade of evolution, this vintage shows emerging layers of leather, dried herbs, earth, and warm roasted notes, while still retaining the formidable fruit concentration and structure that define Roennfeldt Road. It remains a wine of immense scale and presence — a true collector’s bottle that showcases the full strength and personality of Greenock Creek’s iconic style.
Region: Barossa Valley, South Australia
Variety: Shiraz
Alcohol: Typically 15%+
Drinking Window: Now – 2035+
For collectors and lovers of powerful, thick-textured, ultra-premium Barossa Shiraz, the 2009 Roennfeldt Road stands as one of the great benchmark releases.
