Thistledown Cunning Plan

REGION: McLaren Vale, Australia

VARIETIES: Shiraz

VITICULTURE: Conventional

YEAR: 2021

ALCOHOL: 14.5%

INFO: The fruit comes from the Moray Park vineyard in the McLaren Flat sub-region. Low yielding and ultra-intense, Thistledown handle the fruit gently to capture the delicious berry fruit character, overlaid with subtle wood-spice.

Winemaking is simple with The Cunning Plan. Take perfectly balanced fruit, pick, gently crush to preserve whole berries and allow to soak for 4 days prior to a wild fermentation. Pressed off to 300 litre French hogsheads, of which 15% are new, where the wine ages for 10 months prior to bottling unfined and unfiltered.

Great depth of ripe plum and blackberry fruit flavours. A full bodied wine with a succulent palate, lively spices and fine velvety tannins.

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A full bodied wine with a succulent palate, lively spices and fine velvety tannins.