Australian Shiraz Special

Broken Record Shiraz

Broken Record Shiraz is quintessentially Australian. The producer  Boutinot wines offer consistent quality, hugely appealing, commercial wine styles that have gained a loyal following. Reflecting our skill and experience in seeking out the very best of Australia, our wines capture ideal climatic conditions and pure varietal definition.

Juicy, bright and joyous! This delightful cheeky Aussie Shiraz is a blend of grapes from plots across Southeast Australia. Picked at night to avoid the dizzy daytime temperatures and then crushed immediate to retain purity and acidity. This easy drinking Shiraz offers plummy fruit with smooth tannins and masses of joy! Brilliant with spicy dishes, just unscrew the cap and get stuck in!

Boutinot’s Samantha Bailey brings her signature palate and decades of experience to finessing our components into the loveliest Boutinot expressions of Oz.

We stock a great range of Boutinot products on our website

Boutinot produces wines all around the world and imports them into the UK. 

Broken Record Shiraz

Soldiers Block Shiraz

Soldiers Block Shiraz – Soft supple Victorian Shiraz, dangerously moreish by the glass..

Winemakers Notes

This Shiraz is sourced from ancient Victorian soils in order to achieve a wine with greater finesse, purity and structure as well as typical eucalypt flavours and saline finish associated with the area.
Picked at night and crushed within an hour of picking before being sent to the fermentation tanks. The Shiraz grapes were fermented in temperature-controlled tanks maintained at 22 – 25ºC to avoid
extracting any harsh tannins, with the fermentations pumped over to extract good colour. 20% of the final blend is barrel aged. The winemaker also added 5% Malbec at the end of the whole process – a
sneaky technique that gives a mulberry fruit twist on the finish.

Tasting Notes

Bright, aromatic and juicy on the nose with just a touch of naughty bacon fat. True to the varietal, the tiny proportion of Malbec in this blend gives a flowery perfume. This vintage is our brightest, most dangerously drinkable Shiraz to date due to its fine, bright fruit and soft silky elegance.

Juicy and dangerously drinkable, with vibrant red currant, mulberry, and a soft, silky texture. The wine’s balanced acidity and fine tannins lead to a refreshing, clean finish.

Food Pairing

Drink with Moroccan lamb tagine, roast vegetables and hard cheeses.

Vineyards

This Shiraz is crafted from grapes sourced from Victoria, Australia, where ancient soils bring finesse, structure, and depth. The vineyard sites, managed with sustainability in mind, yield a Shiraz with the typical eucalypt notes and a distinctive saline finish associated with the region’s terroir.

In celebration of the ‘Returned Soldiers Settlement Act’ of 1915, when returning Australian soldiers were rewarded with ‘blocks’ of land, which led to the planting of vineyards, still used today.

You can see our full range of Soldiers Block wines at our dedicated web page

To see more information on the producer go to the importers website

Momento Shiraz

Momento Shiraz

Muddy Boots Shiraz by Berton Vineyards

Muddy Boots Shiraz- This fruit-packed Shiraz is rich and perfectly balanced, jammed full of plum and blackberry flavours. The tannins are ripe, giving great structure and a long lingering finish. A perfect partner for charcuterie, grilled meat dishes and hard cheeses.

To see our full range of Berton Vineyard wines go to our web page 

To find out more about the winery go to their website

Established by Bob & Cherie Berton in May 1996 with 75 acres of land at 450m above sea level on gently rolling hills in a sub-region of Eden Valley in South Australia. The Reserve Shiraz and Reserve Chardonnay wines are still sourced from this plot. In 2007 Bob purchased the Yenda winery in the heart of the Riverina. This state of the art facility allows Berton Vineyards to produce value for money wines which sit alongside his premium single vineyard offerings. From humble beginnings, Berton Vineyards has grown into one of the 20 largest wineries in Australia, whose winery and wines have received strong reviews and accolades internationally. In 2014, they were rated one of the top-20 producers in terms of quality in Australia. They put their success down to maintaining personal relationships with their customers.

Berton Vineyards all started at our Eden Valley Vineyard, in High Eden, South Australia. High Eden is a subregion of Eden Valley, situated in the Barossa Valley. It is the highest part of the Barossa, about 500 meters above sea level. In this beautiful part of the world we have planted Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. The best parcels of fruit from our Shiraz vineyards go into our Berton Vineyards Bonsai Shiraz, our flagship wine. Fruit from the Shiraz vineyard also forms the backbone for our Reserve Shiraz, which won the Decanter Platinum Best Value Rhone varietal in 2017. The Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc make our High Eden Range, and the Chardonnay goes into the White Rock Chardonnay and our Reserve Eden Valley Chardonnay.

Muddy Boots Shiraz by Berton Vineyards

Bremerton NAP Shiraz

Bremerton NAP Shiraz – Rich and ripe with a concentrated plum fruit core and a silky texture. NAP = No Added Preservatives

VEGAN FRIENDLY

BREMERTON NAP SHIRAZ – selection process – Rebecca Wilson, winemaker. –

So far the parcels that have allowed a NAP shiraz to be made have been very concentrated in colour (anthocyanins) a natural preservative. Also very microbially sound so able to sit with no SO2. Great fruit expression and natural balance. We monitor parcels post MLF and pick the ones to be topped and no so2 added then monitor their development for 4-5 month to allow for some natural stability before committing them to the final selection.

Vinification details

Fruit was picked from Bremerton’s Langhorne Creek vineyard. After fermenting in open top fermenters, the wine was pressed to oak and aged on lees for four months.
The natural concentration of anthocyanin (colour) helps preserve this fresh and vibrant wine. Selected barrels were carefully gravity-racked to blend then sent to bottle young to capture the vibrancy.

Bremerton is a Member of Sustainable Winegrowing Australia. Bremerton aims to be at the forefront of dealing with environmental issues within the wine industry and implements best practice principles on a wide range of environmental concerns including: caring for native wildlife, recycling winery waste products, water conservation policies, minimising pesticides and the use of sulphur, and working towards neutralisation of their carbon footprint.

The wine is rich and ripe with a concentrated plum fruit core and a silky texture.  The fruit was picked from their Langhorne Creek vineyard, after fermenting in open-top fermenters, the wine was pressed to oak and aged on lees for 4 months.  The natural concentration of anthocyanin (colour) helps preserve this fresh and vibrant wine.  Selected barrels were carefully gravity racked to blend then sent to bottle young to capture the vibrancy.

Serve as an apéritif or with Tapas. 

For more information on the winery go to http://www.bremerton.com.au/

To see our full range of Bremerton wines go to http://www.auswinesonline.co.uk/product-category/bremerton/

Murphy Vineyard Shiraz

Murphy Vineyard Shiraz is an attractive, fruit-driven Shiraz which comes from the Murphy family’s vineyards in Australia’s Murray Darling region where they have grown grapes since 1909.
Cherry red with hints of dark plum and chocolate on the nose. The wine is seamlessly balanced with sweet lifted fruit, subtle oak and soft tannins, a delicious wine made to enjoy now.

Harvested at full ripeness, the grapes were crushed and fermented on skins for seven days with regular pumpovers to extract colour and flavour. After pressing, the wine was aged with select French and American oak before blending and bottling.

The Murphy family have grown grapes in the Murray Darling region of Australia, part of the Big Rivers, since 1909. They build on this experience to create their fruit-driven wines.
The grape selection and winemaking practices at Murphy Vineyards aim to highlight the fruit flavours with these appealing wines that show ripe fruit aromas and soft, rich palates. Murphy Vineyards have selected, from their own plantings, Chardonnay and Shiraz grapes of good sound quality which have displayed true varietal expression in the final wine.

To see our range of Murphy Vineyard product go to our dedicated Murphy Vineyard web page

Murphy Vineyard is part of the Trentham Estate group. Trentham Estate has long strived to provide support to localised Murray Darling research activities for sustainable water supply, quality and capacity. With the recent closure of the Lower Basin Laboratory in Mildura, it has looked to another respected organisation to support during a time of much strain on the local environment. For over 20 years, the Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group Ltd has worked on wetlands throughout the Murray-Darling Basin, restoring and improving the management of wetlands throughout the catchment, of the Murray-Darling Basin.

Murphy Vineyard Shiraz – great value wine with a conscience.