O'Leary Walker Claire Reserve Shiraz 2013

O'Leary Walker Claire Reserve Shiraz 2013In 2000, with over 35 years of experience making wine with some of Australia's biggest wine companies, long time friends David O'Leary and Nick Walker established O'Leary Walker Wines. Not surprisingly, it didn't take long for them to establish a formidable reputation. The Claire Reserve Shiraz, named in honour of David's mother, Claire Marie O'Leary, is their flagship red. Fruit is sourced from a small planting of 120 year old dry grown vines in

we enjoy cooler nights and a greater Mistral effect

plum and some more savoury characters are bound up with lingering tannins

and this glorious riesling is a fitting testament

bright straw-green

Fruit is hand-picked and sorted to open fermenters

This release is a ripper and cements Tolpuddle's place in the upper echelon of Australian chardonnay producers

Just as I cannot tell you at what precise moment a reserve wine will be ready until the day I taste it and the decision becomes obvious

ably assisted by generous tannins

Sleek and focused with an elegant travel across the palate

Succulent blue fruits

like a drop of peach juice had been added

deep and full