Description
Winemaker Corey Ryan and Viticulturist Simon Cowham are the ‘Sons of Eden’, who both learned and honed their skills in the Barossa Valley.
The team focusses on varieties that the Barossa produces to the highest standards, such as Shiraz, Grenache and Mourvedre from the Barossa Valley as well as Riesling from the Eden Valley.
Sons of Eden wines are crafted using carefully managed and selected fruit as well as a mixture of traditional and modern winemaking techniques.
The wines are paying tribute to the pioneers, characters and rich traditions of the Barossa region.
Hand harvested, destemmed and crushed into small 1.5 tonne open topped fermenters.
Selected fermenters had up to 20% whole-bunch clusters added to the destemmed berries.
A pre-fermentation cold soak ensured a slow initiation to fermentation, where temperatures were allowed to peak at 27oC before being cooled to 20 oC for the remainder of the fermentation.
Hand plunged daily allowed for a gentle extraction and helped to prolong the fermentation.
After an extended period on skins the ferments were pressed to 50% new French oak hogsheads.
Matured and not racked throughout the 18-month oak-maturation period provided for palate weight and texture.
Prior to bottling, the wine was naturally clarified and bottled without filtration.
This wine is built to last and it’s optimum year under the right cellaring conditions is from 2029 onwards.
Fragrant, classic Eden Valley sage and truffle, a little tinned corn, creamy spicy oak, rich blue and black fruit.
It’s supple and mouth-filling, with smooth fine-grained tannin, blueberry, raspberry and plum, coffee cream oak, and a sweet spiced and savoury finish of excellent length.
Luxurious and thoroughly regional.
– Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, 94 Points The Finer Details Style – Red Wine Varietal – Shiraz Country – Australia Region – Eden Valley, South Australia Vintage – 2019 Bottle Size – 750ml ABV – 14.5%
