12 pack: $540 / Unit price per bottle: $45
Region: Bendigo, Vic
Varieties: Shiraz
Vintage: 2014
Colour: Deep brick red
Nose: Cherries, chocolate, anise and liquorice with hints of oak and herbs.
Palate: Rich and juicy, plums and dark cherry/berry flavours are predominant.
The finish is long, elegant and persistent. Bottle age will allow these flavours to coalesce and add further complexity.
Alcohol: 14.2%
Cellaring: 4-10 years
Food: Perfect with a dry aged chargrilled steak
Background: Blackjack Wines is named for an American sailor who jumped ship during the Gold Rush era of the 1850s. In search of his fortune, Blackjack found his way to the Castlemaine Goldfields and into the history of this region, with a road adjacent to Blackjack vineyard still bearing his name.
Similarly Ian McKenzie and Ken Pollock, in pursuit of their dreams, first planted vines on an old apple orchard in 1988, gradually increasing the plot to include Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and a small area of Merlot.
Plantings increased in 1988 with the creation of a unique site of Shiraz, now known as Block 6. Situated on Castlemaine sandstone gravel rather than the old granitic soils of the other vines and with different clonal material, the wine from Block 6 shows qualities closer to the French Rhône style.
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