2021
2021 Night Owls Shiraz Malbec Coonawarra
The wine has a deep purple and crimson colour with bright red hues. The Night Owl has lifted aromas of dark plum and blackberries covered with a blanket of fire toasted and chocolate oak.
There is a depth of flavours with dark plum and forest fruits weaving through layers of mouth-coating yet fine tannins with pepper and spice mix holding through the finish.
$30.00 /bottle
| VARIETY | Shiraz Malbec |
|---|---|
| REGION | Coonawarra |
| VINTAGE | 2019 |
| ALCOHOL | 14% |
2021 vintage
Awards and Accolades
- Gold Medal | China Wine & Spirits Awards Best Value 2022
- Gold Medal | China Wine & Spirits Awards 2021
- 93 Points | Winepilot, Ray Jordan
- 93 Points | Wine Orbit, Sam Kim
- 92 Points | National Liquor News
- 90 Points | Wine Advocate, Erin Larkin
- 90 Points | The Real Review, Huon Hooke
THE STORY
Behind the name
A far cry from the big city, the local community of Coonawarra meets every Friday night at “The Coonawarra Club” to share a meal, a drink and tales of the week that was.
If visiting in the 1960’s you may have been lucky enough to hear the ‘Night Owls’ play the Club, led by Eric Brand on Piano and Don Redman on Saxophone bringing jazzy tunes to the local hall.
Demonstrating without a doubt, that they were equally adept at creating wines as keeping a tune, the Night-Owls were well known for decades to come in the South East as the band to hire to keep the people dancing and the night young.
THE STORY
Winemaking
Sourced from a selection of vineyards in the northern Glenroy sub-region of Coonawarra, South Australia.
Machine picked, the fruit was fermented on skins and pumped over twice daily to ensure maximum extraction of colour and flavour. Once dry the wine was pressed and pumped to new and used oak barrels to complete malo-lactic fermentation.
On completion of malolactic fermentation the wine was racked off lees and then transferred back to oak for 18 months of final barrel maturation
Oak used was a mixture of new (25%) & second shave fine grained French and American barrels.
