Shiraz Viognier 2006

Wine Colour

Dark red with a slightly purple hue.

Wine Bouquet

This wine has an overt lifted aroma of black berry fruits, plums, licorice and subtle apricots. Underlying aromas of vanilla, cinnamon, dark chocolate, violets and cedar add to the complexity of the aroma.

Wine Palate

The wine is medium bodied – rich and smooth with delicious flavours of juicy plums, blackberry, licorice and subtle spicy apricot. This is a well integrated and balanced wine with grainy, textured tannins which persist well after the wine has been finished.

Suggested Food Matching

Try it with gourmet pizza or spicy chorizo sausage.

Critics Notes

“Bright colour; attractive lifted red berry fruits with some spicy notes with some vanilla oak; fine tannins. 89 points.” James Halliday, Aust Wine Companion 2009

“A delicious wine with very wide appeal in a label gaining popularity as Eighty Acres... A lovely wine, ready now with a long future.” Peter Saunders, F&B Behind Bars, Sept 2008.

“This adventurous blend of shiraz and viognier is part of a new wave of unique Australian red wines. The addition of a small amount of the aromatic white grape, viognier, softens and lifts the spiciness of the red. A bouquet of blackberries, plums and licorice add to the perfume. Needless to say, this shiraz viognier tastes great and is top value for money.” Best Buy. Joelle Thomson, MiNDFOOD, Oct 2008.

“Fast becoming a personal favourite in the Taylors range, this shiraz viognier has intense blackberry fruit lifted by aromatic spice making it tops with Peking spare ribs.” Angus Hughson, Herald Sun (Aus), 6 Aug 2008.

Cellaring Notes

The wine can be enjoyed now but will benefit from careful cellaring up to and possibly beyond 2015

Older Vintages

2005