2019 Head Wines Wilton Hill Shiraz

Highly Rated
This is the flagship Shiraz from Alex Head - a powerhouse Barossa Shiraz that's built for the long haul.

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Description

This brooding Shiraz is crafted from a parcel of Shiraz planted in 1929, and serves as a wine that allows winemaker Alex Head to show off all the reasons we love Barossan Shiraz.

Named after the Wilton Hill property it hails from, this wine serves to be the essence of the vineyard in a bottle. It's bold and intense, with lifted aromatics from the 100% whole bunches used drawing you in with purple floral aromatics.

Earth, spice, dark chocolate and grippy tannin meet with a kiss of oaky vanilla. It's best years are still ahead of it and will continue to reward with time.

‘Wilton’ was an old town in Flaxman Valley and the vineyard was planted on the hill above the town, hence the property name. The property covers 250 acres. It was originally part of the largest land-holding within Flaxman Valley, of approximately 4000 acres, by the Pohlner family who were original 1852 settlers. The current owners are the Mattschoss Family, 6th generation farmers of the Barossa.

Region: Barossa Valley, SA
Blend: Shiraz (100%)
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Closure: 750ml
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95 Points - "Intense purple colour here. Blackberry pastille, spice, fair bit of perfume, panforte, some earthiness. Medium to full-bodied, very dense and dark, lots of dark chocolate and spice, grain and grip to tannin, a little earthy, bold flavour, kind of dark and brooding, but still fresh and more than a little exotic. Some creamy vanilla oak and sooty tannin comes through in the aftertaste. Very good. Needs a little time in bottle, for sure." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

97 Points - "Wilton Hill is the flagship wine from Alex Head, a single-vineyard offering from the 90yo shiraz vines at 500m elevation in the range above Flaxman Valley. The colour is a saturated red purple, giving a hint of the intensity to come. Dark and black fruit of impressive density abound, cut deeply with spice and earth. It's a wonderfully expressive wine, both of latent fruit power and of site. The balance is pitch perfect, with ample tannin and mineral-like acid support. Very impressive." - Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 Points - "Very deep, glass-staining purple/red colour, with aromas that are very rich and sumptuous, chocolaty and vanillan, with glimpses of spices, the palate full-bodied and densly textured, fleshy and decadently concentrated. Luscious flavour, lavish use of oak but not domineering or harsh. The tannins are super-abundant and supple. A lovely wine, which will only get better with time and deserves cellaring." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

Head Wines

Alex Head has had what you might call a meteoric rise through the Australian wine industry. In his short career as a producer he has been heralded as one of the best Young Gun Winemakers, not only in the Barossa but the whole country.

With no formal training as a winemaker, the purity and balance inherent in the wines are amazing.

Alex has a passion for the old vineyards that populate the Barossa. With a keen eye for a good site, Alex has put together a formidable portfolio of vineyards which produce simply outstanding renditions of Shiraz and Grenache year-in, year-out. These are some of the most exciting wines in the Barossa.

Alex in the vines Barossa Valley, SA Head Wines

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