2008 Frost Dodger Shiraz
Estate single vineyard wine grown in the chilly surrounds of Mt McKenzie in the Eden Valley crafted via our Italian heritage appassimento dry racking.
- Region
- Eden Valley
- Sub-Region
- Mount McKenzie
- Specific Vineyard
- Mount McKenzie
- Altitude
- 380 meters
- Soil
- Clay loam over a shaley schist rock bed
- Vineyard Practices
- Family traditional biological farming methods with a diet of composts, native grasses & flora as ground cover, low water imput and natural sprays for diseases.
- Trellis System
- Single wire
- Varietal
- Shiraz
- Age of Vines
- 14 years
- Alc/vol
- 14.5%
- Closure
- Diam
- Yield per vine
- 3.5 kg
- Oak treatment
- 100% French for 18 months
- French oak type
- Cadus, Radoux, Remond, Bernard, Gillet, D'Aquitaine and Ermitage
- Total production
- 5300 bottles
- Vintage
- 2008 rainfall in the Eden Valley was average with a slight frost during the first week of November. Flowering was above average with good fruit load. January and February recorded the coolest in 30 years while March had its own record with temperatures reaching over 35c for 15 days. Our grapeyard overcame the extremes and produced amazing colour with super Shiraz flavourings and an exciting dodger release.
2008 Frost Dodger Shiraz
Current pricing
$30.00 per bottle or $360.00 for a case of 12.
Reviews
James Halliday July 2010
Solid red-purple; has the Torzi Frost Dodger DNA written large on the bouquet and palate, with its interwoven black fruits, spice, leather and licorice characters rising to a crescendo on the finish.
Stephen Tanzer July 2010
Opaque purple. An intensely spicy bouquet displays scents of blackberry, cherry compote and smoky Indian spices. Powerful dark fruit flavors are surprisingly lithe on the palate, with fine-grained tannins lending gentle grip and structure. The spicy note repeats on the impressively long finish, along with notes of black cardamom and violet pastille.
Campbell Mattinson Winefront March 2010
Lots of flavour - naturally. Deceptive amount of fine, ripe tannin too. It tastes of boysenberries and licorice, tar and assorted dried flowers. It’s lavishly perfumed and feels soft on your tongue, though the more you taste it the more the wine’s tannin structure impresses itself. A ‘yum’ wine, for sure. It has some sweet, toffeed characters too, but that’s part of the wine’s shtick. I like this release.
James Halliday 2008 & 2009 Australian Wine Companion
Torzi Matthews scores 5 star rating
Gourmet Traveller Wine June 2008
Frost Dodger Shiraz named as Emerging Star from the Eden Valley.
