2021 Agricola Flaxman Valley Shiraz

Highly Rated
A deliciously light and bright expression of Eden Valley Shiraz - Callum Powell is doing great things at Agricola.

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The home wine of sorts for Callum, the Flaxman Shiraz is sourced from two vineyards: his family's old-vine home block which is over 100 years-old, and their neighbours stunning steep hillside vineyard next door.

Having an intimate, lifetime of knowledge of these two vineyards is clearly evident in the deftness of this wine. So light on its feet, and a truly unique expression of Eden Valley Shiraz. Really though, this is more Syrah than Shiraz, in the Australian understanding of the stylistic differences. Black pepper, olive tapenade, with a salinity, all dancing on top of cool black fruits.

Far out, this wine is just so damn sexy, everything about it screams drink me, drink me now. So sexy it hurts.

Flaxman comprises mostly Nathan Burley’s hillside site next door to our home, with a small inclusion of our old vines out the front of our house and one puncheon of Christa and Leon Deans’ Naimanya vineyard just up Flaxmans Valley Road.



All of these old-vine sites are within a stone’s throw of each other and all straddle the top of the quartz-riddled granitic ridge of Flaxman Valley at about 500m altitude, with the Naimanya vineyard slightly higher in altitude at 520m, being one of the highest shiraz sites in South Australia.

97 Points - "Savoury shiraz at a medium weight with fine bones and freshness on its side. Has game meat and undergrowth notes, brambly blackberries, a touch of alpine herb and eucalyptus/Aussie bush going on. Tension and torsion in the palate – lithe, albeit dark fruited, that savouriness strong in the suede tannin profile and an almost Italianate feel in that regard. This is outstanding stuff here. Finesse, elegance and detail the motif. And straight up deliciousness. This one really purrs." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

Agricola

The Powell name has become synonymous with the Barossa over the past 20+ Years.

First at Torbreck, where Dave helped grow them into the powerhouse they are today, then with Powell & Son, where he and son Callum joined forces, again, quickly gaining international attention.

Yet here we are, with Callum now forging his own path with Agricola. Sourcing fruit from his family's vineyards as well as the famous Hoffmann sites, Callum is quickly stepping out of his father’s shadow.

Producing wines very much in a lo-fi way, Callum aims to express a more contemporary vision of the Barossa/Eden, with light and lithe wines that are pure, unadulterated, and without the heavy oak influence that the region is known for.

Callum Power with his father Dave Agricola

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