Duke's Vineyard Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2021 - Porongurup, Great Southern - Australia

About this wine

Our flagship Shiraz is sourced from the highest and most central point of the vineyard, where the terroir results in a wine of great balance and plushness, framing bright fruit in velvety fine tannins and muscular power.

Type	Red Wine
Varietal	Shiraz
Country & Region	Australia • Great Southern
Vintage	2021
Alcohol	14.20%
Production Style	In transition to biodynamic farming

Harvest Method	hand picked
Age of Vines	25 years
Altitude of Vineyard	230m
Producers	Duke's Vineyard
Production	5,172 bottles
Total Production	5,172 bottles

Aging	Aged in 100% French oak (36% new, balance from 17, 18, 19) of 300L hogsheads, for 14 months on fine lees. The larger format vessel allowed better integration and retention of more freshness.
Fermentation & Maceration	Selectively harvested early morning in early April, the fruit was cool when it arrived at the winery. It was destemmed into a closed top fermenter and allowed to cold soak naturally before the ferment was allowed to proceed, followed by gentle pumping over daily from 1-3 times. Some post-ferment maceration ensued for complexity and structure, building complete tannins with intense colours for a total of 17 days on skins; the skins were then pressed gently, creating a powerful muscular, yet refined wine
Malolactic Fermentation	yes

Duke's Vineyard Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2021 - Porongurup, Great Southern - Australia

Name: Duke's Vineyard Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2021 - Porongurup, Great Southern - Australia
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Shiraz

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Duke's Vineyard Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2021 - Porongurup, Great Southern - Australia

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About this wine

Wine Profile

Type

Red Wine

Varietal

Shiraz

Country & Region

Australia • Great Southern

Vintage

2021

Alcohol

14.20%

Production Style

In transition to biodynamic farming

Vineyard & Harvest

Harvest Method

hand picked

Age of Vines

25 years

Altitude of Vineyard

230m

Producers

Duke's Vineyard

Production

5,172 bottles

Total Production

5,172 bottles

Winemaking

Aging

Aged in 100% French oak (36% new, balance from 17, 18, 19) of 300L hogsheads, for 14 months on fine lees. The larger format vessel allowed better integration and retention of more freshness.

Fermentation & Maceration

Selectively harvested early morning in early April, the fruit was cool when it arrived at the winery. It was destemmed into a closed top fermenter and allowed to cold soak naturally before the ferment was allowed to proceed, followed by gentle pumping over daily from 1-3 times. Some post-ferment maceration ensued for complexity and structure, building complete tannins with intense colours for a total of 17 days on skins; the skins were then pressed gently, creating a powerful muscular, yet refined wine

Malolactic Fermentation

yes

Critique Review

"Superb colour; hand-picked fruit from highest and most central point of the vineyard, yet has the lowest alcohol of the three shirazes. This is a magnificent shiraz, with seemingly endless layers of blackberries, plums fresh and stewed, and rounded, plush tannins."

97 Points

James Halliday - Weekend Australian Magazine

"Ripe and generous with opulent rich fruit. It certainly is a step up from the very good Single Vineyard Shiraz loaded with ripe juicy plummy fruit underpinned by a chalky tannin precision. The sweet fruit is given a little boost with the sprinkle of spices and dried herbs, while the French oak management is right on the money. The smooth and seamless palate is a joy."

95 Points

Wine Pilot

"The cool growing area of the Porongurup range is an incredibly beautiful, evocative place. At once vast and intimate, it has the capacity to show you open vistas and, at the next turn, tight vignettes of granite outcrops. The Duke's Magpie Hill vineyard is planted on a gentle slope set against a backdrop of one such outcrop. The wines from this vineyard have a pristine quality to them, and this 2021 Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz is a prime example of what the vineyard is capable of. It offers notes of blueberry, blackberry, cassis, raspberry, squid ink, nutmeg, white pepper and blood plum. It has all of the beauty of the previous vintages, but it feels like the elongation through the finish, which I so admire in this wine, is missing. It is lovely, pretty and pure."

94 Points

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

"Deep purple-red colour with a fresh, bright bouquet of spices, dark-plum, coconut and chocolate, the palate medium-full weighted with plenty of soft fluffy tannins and richness teamed with elegance. Oak is very much in the background. A typical Great Southern shiraz."

93 Points

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About the Accolades

Founded by the renowned Australian wine critic and journalist, James Halliday, the Wine Companion regroups the most extensive collection of wine reviews and ratings every year, from some of the best wineries of Australia.

Probably the most famous and influential wine critic and journalist in the world, Robert Parker founded the famous American magazine, The Wine Advocate and made his 100-point system a benchmark for the entire industry.