Hartz Barn Wines

Wines

2002 Barossa General Store Shiraz

Selected bunches of premium Shiraz grapes from a single Barossa vineyard were picked on 10 April 2002, crushed and fermented in open vats for 8 days, basket pressed followed by malolactic fermentation in French and American oak hogshead barrels for 64 days.

This 2002 Hartz Barn Wines General Store Shiraz wine was racked and returned to the American oak and French oak barrels for 12 months maturation before bottling on 10th April 2003.

Alc./Vol.: 14.4%
Residual sugar: 0.55g/L
pH: 3.69g/L
TA: 6.33g/L

Awards

  • Bronze Medal - Canberra, Australia National Wine Show 2003
  • Bronze Medal - Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2003
  • Bronze Medal - Perth Royal Wine Show 2003
  • Bronze Medal - Sydney Royal Show 2004
  • Blue/Gold Award - Sydney International Wine Competition 2004
  • Top 100 Wines - Sydney International Wine Competition 2004

Reviews

Four Stars.

— Winestate Magazine. April 2004.

Deep black plum in colour with an amazing aroma of chocolate vanilla and black fruit. The palate is sexy indeed with intense blackberries and black pepper combining with wonderful chewy tannins to create artistry in a glass. The clever combination of maturation in French and American oak has paid off handsomely. Already beautifully integrated, this wine will continue to improve with 2-6 years of cellaring. This is a high quality, serious Shiraz for hedonists at heart. 94/100.

— Dr Ron Georgiou, MW.

Hartz Barn Wines Barossa General Store Shiraz 2002. Super essency, raspberry coulis smelling shiraz, with vanilla too and some treacly bits. Attacks with a big, silky thud of raspberry and sticky date pudding fruit, which lands on a soft bed of tannin. Structurally the wine is rather loose, but there's conserve fruit aplenty. Smoke and caramel to close. 88/100.

— Tim White, Weekend Financial Review, May 2004

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