Named after Jeff Burch’s father, the Leston Shiraz is 100% Margaret River Shiraz crafted from fruit exclusively selected from the vines planted in 1996 on the Howard Park Leston Vineyard. The Howard Park Leston vines are given extraordinary attention in the vineyard. Canopy management is designed to maximise fruit exposure to the sunlight and yields are kept low to achieve concentration in the grapes. The grapes are harvested according to flavour with little regard for analytical data. At completion of fermentation the Shiraz is pressed off into French oak barriques of which about 60% are new, the balance being 1 year old. The wine is then matured in barrel for approximately 18 months. An attractive lifted violet perfume is the distinctive vineyard character that runs through each vintage of this wine. Although a relatively new addition to the Howard Park family, the Leston Shiraz has already won considerable attention for achieving opulence with strong regional definition. In 2007 the 2004 Howard Park Leston Shiraz was awarded at Gold Medal at the prestigious Concours Mondial de Bruxelles wine competition.
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This wine has an opaque purple red appearance of great density. Predominantly lifted primary fruits with raspberry, ripe plum and blueberry with an attractive lifted perfume of violets is the distinctive vineyard character that runs through each vintage of this wine. Underlying spice adds a cinnamon edge and the bacon and vanillan oak character will be swallowed into the wine with time.
It displays a powerful and plush palate profile with the youthful, sweet fruit mid palate showing Satsuma and underlying spice with the oak seamlessly integrated. The open knit tannin structure is typical of the Leston Shiraz and Margaret River Shiraz in general. This shows as an even gravelly textured mid-palate and mouthfilling richness which finishes with traces of soy and oyster brine complexity as the wine opens up. A remarkably persistent wine in the style of previous releases under this label.
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