Cellar Door Price 90 Aud.
“Includes 3% co-fermented viognier, hand-picked, destemmed, wild-fermented in open 5-tonne pots, basket-pressed to used French barriques for 20 months. A (probably intended exercise comparing the outcome of oak selection) less dense wine, the fruit more obvious thanks to co-fermentation and no new oak. It's still formidable, but moves around the mouth with greater freedom, with an easier texture.”
96 points, James Halliday – Halliday’s Wine Companion.
"This Barossa Shiraz gets a three per cent addition of Viognier which plays its role perfectly, adding spicy aromatics to the intense primary fruit characters of the Shiraz. Floral and ever so slightly minty with a plummy, violet aroma. The palate has plenty of tannin support which will come from the co-fermentation of these varieties. The oak is not a major influence on the finished character apart from contributing to its texture and palate feel."
95 points, Ray Jordan
This wine recently picked up a Diamond Trophy Award at the 2024 Sakura Women’s Wine Awards (SWWA) in Japan along with being awarded the ‘Grand Prix Pairing for Japanese Cuisine – Sukiyaki’
WINERY NOTE:
The Lone Goose is a Shiraz Viognier blend sourced from a 25 year old vineyard block on our Roennfeldt Road estate, co-fermented with a small amount of Viognier (3%). The Shiraz and Viognier grapes are hand-picked, destemmed and fermented using indigenous yeasts in 5 tonne open top fermenters. At the completion of fermentation, the wine is basket pressed and filled to seasoned French oak barriques for 20 months.
The wine is purple-black in the glass, displaying aromas of mocha and dark chocolate with blueberry compote, grilled peaches, fragrant blue violet florals and subtle notes of crushed gum leaf and bay leaf with hints of cedar spice. The powerful palate is rich with sweet flavours of wild raspberry, strawberry and rhubarb which coat every surface of the mouth. Dusty French oak tannins encompass the sweet red fruit, with a nice fine acid line providing focus and direction. Subtle peach like flavours from the Viognier add further complexity.
An elegant wine that is drinking beautifully upon release, but will continue to provide drinking pleasure for many years to come.
