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HEAD WINES Wilton Hill Shiraz, Barossa Ranges 2019 Bottle
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HEAD WINES Wilton Hill Shiraz, Barossa Ranges 2019 Bottle
About this wine
Head Wilton Hill Shiraz Barossa Ranges
Wilton Hill is comprised of an old vine vineyard, perched atop the Barossa Ranges as it encroaches on the Eden Valley. The soil, a complex polyglot of sandy loams, limestone and ferrous ironstone over a substrata of mottled quartz. The geology is arguably more intrinsic to the makeup of the wine than the variety, or maker Alex Head’s deft hand. This is top- drawer Barossa Grand Cru speaking. Make no mistake! Think a swirl of dark fruits, aromas of iodine, lilac and violet, punctuated with a swab of tapenade-encrusted tannins. Dig deeper and there are scents of smoked meats, thyme, lavender and mocha, trailing across a peppery trail of freshness that tows this full-bodied wine long. Sumptuous gear that is ready for an aggressive decant, or extended time in the cellar.
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Expert Review
Gary Walsh
Intense purple colour here. Blackberry pastille, spice, fair bit of perfume, panforte, some earthiness. Medium to full-bodied, very dense and dark, lots of dark chocolate and spice, grain and grip to tannin, a little earthy, bold flavour, kind of dark and brooding, but still fresh and more than a little exotic. Some creamy vanilla oak and sooty tannin comes through in the aftertaste. Very good. Needs a little time in bottle, for sure.
95 points, The Wine Front (June 2022)
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Huon Hooke
Very deep, glass-staining purple/red colour, with aromas that are very rich and sumptuous, chocolaty and vanillan, with glimpses of spices, the palate full-bodied and densly textured, fleshy and decadently concentrated. Luscious flavour, lavish use of oak but not domineering or harsh. The tannins are super-abundant and supple. A lovely wine, which will only get better with time and deserves cellaring. (Fruit from the Mattschoss vineyard)
96 points, The Real Review (March 2022)
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Erin Larkin
The 2019 Wilton Hill is brooding, dark and dense, with blue fruits, Earl Grey tea, crushed rocks, old-vine char and concentration and pumice stone tannins.... I find some wines require me to extract the characters before I explain what they're like, and this is a highly complex, compressed wine with numerous layers of flavor, tannin and spice to unfurl. This is sourced from Flaxman Valley, from a 90-year-old vineyard that sits at 500 meters in elevation. The struggle and the effort that the vines go through shows in the flavor that is eked out of the berries. This is long and complete and at the very beginning of its life. Sadly, only 480 bottles were made.
96+ points, Wine Advocate (September 2022)
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Dave Brookes
Wilton Hill is the flagship wine from Alex Head, a single-vineyard offering from the 90yo shiraz vines at 500m elevation in the range above Flaxman Valley. The colour is a saturated red purple, giving a hint of the intensity to come. Dark and black fruit of impressive density abound, cut deeply with spice and earth. It's a wonderfully expressive wine, both of latent fruit power and of site. The balance is pitch perfect, with ample tannin and mineral-like acid support. Very impressive.
97 points, Wine Companion (November 2021)
Head Wines
Alex Head is part of the new generation of small Barossa winemakers creating wines in a new, more elegant style. Inspired by the wines of the Rhone valley, Alex Head sources small-parcels of old vine fruit and uses traditional vinification techniques to produce wines with perfume, vibrant fruit and savoury complexity. Head’s aim is maximum drinkability, which he successfully achieves by emphasising freshness, balance, texture and fruit purity. Eight wines are made under the Head label, including the Blonde and the Brunette inspired by the legendary wines of the Northern Rhone.
