Louis Latour Agencies
Producers
Rocky Road
Shiraz
| This wine is a blend of two sites within the Margaret River region. The blocky lateritic Rocky Road site provides fruit with great flavour concentration and structural backbone. The sandier, clay soils of our Osmington site give lighter, more elegant fruit with excellent aromatic lift and vitality. Combined, we get firmness with restraint and elegance with integrity. Vineyard management takes a back to basics approach at McHenry Hohnen embracing sustainable 'Old School' practices that were used before the rise of intense agriculture. | |
| Available Vintages | 2021 |
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| Other vintages | 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2007 2006 |
| Tasting note |
Medium bodied with gentle, ripe tannins and a rounded finish The fruit is rich and earthy with rounded plum and bramble fruit supported by farm yardy characters and herbal hints.
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| Awards and Accolades |
90 points, The Wine Gang 2012Though better known for Cabernet Sauvignon than Shiraz, Margaret River is turning out some compelling examples with a bit of cool climate lift and fragrance. Witness this with its white pepper tones and lovely meatiness. The sweetness of the fruit on the palate is enveloping and generous, yet with a streak of endive clarity to the bittersweet finish. Sarah Ahmed, www.thewinedetective.co.uk, 19 Sep 2012I’m much more familiar with 3 Amigos red than McHenry Hohnen’s 100% Shiraz but, having met winemaker Hohnen’s son-in-law Ryan Walsh, I’m not surprised that it’s such a vivacious wine, more Rhone than Barossa. Youthful in hue and on nose and palate, it’s wonderfully sappy and juicy with blood plum and sweet red berry fruit, fruit spice (black pepper and especially liquorice) with an edge of smoky bacon/charcuterie (new oak). The tannins are ripe but firm – more fruit than wood-driven. Probably the most attractive Margaret River Shiraz I’ve tasted in this pure fruited, perfumed, honest style. |
| Region | Margaret River |
| Grape variety | Shiraz |
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