This comes from a single block in Wilyabrup planted back in '72, so it's one of the oldest in the region. Excellent season has produced fruit of fine balance and poise. It's been captured in this super wine. The nose is fragrant with a spicy, licorice and plummy, blackberry thing happening. The palate has a grainy texture which is simply compelling. The flavour profile extends effortlessly to a very long finish I love this wine. One of the best.
Best WA Shiraz
95/100 Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate 2023
The fruit for this wine is from the Septumus vineyard (old-vine Shiraz that was previously owned by Sandalford). 2020 was the first time that Deep Woods used this fruit resource for this wine. Larger format oak and 35% whole bunches in the ferment has wrought a wine of supple complexity and spice. The 2022 Reserve Shiraz is supple and exciting, highly aromatic and complex. In the mouth, there is salted red licorice, raspberry, red snakes, star anise and a hint of Campari/orange peel character. It matured for nine months in oak puncheons (500 liter). Bright! Exciting! The future for Margaret River Shiraz is bright, yet undetermined; the winemaking styles and site/clonal exploration is ongoing, with no fixed stylistic template as yet. Viticulture and vintage conditions also play a major role in the success of this variety in the region. We as drinkers, we wait!
Drinking Window: 2023-2030
Producer's notes:
vintage 2022 was a truly exceptional vintage in Margaret River. The season started beautifully with a wet spring and late flowering, followed by a warm and dry season, producing refined flavour, great elegance and real personality.Ā
winemaking This wine is almost entirely from our old vine central Wilyabrup vineyard planted in 1972. The Shiraz was 100% hand-picked and transferred to small open top fermenters with 30% whole bunch fruit.
A minimalist approach in the winery included twice daily plunging with pressing occurring after 12 days on skins to a mixture of new and seasoned French oak, majority puncheons. The wine was aged on lees for 10 months before bottling and bottle ageing.
The aim was to capture all of the complexity that this great wine entails whilst retaining huge exuberance of fruit and the general deliciousness of the Deep Woods Estate Reserve Shiraz.
region Margaret River
variety Shiraz
analysis Alcohol: 14.5% TA: 5.60 g/L pH: 3.72
Food Parings
Rare venison with mushroom ravioli and celeriac puree.
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