1998 Hardys Eileen Hardy Shiraz Winery: Hardys Vintage: 1998 Region: McLaren Vale Bottle Size: 750ml Variety: Shiraz Price: $110.00 (out of stock)

Winemaker:              Stephen Pannell & Simon White

Food Suggestions:    Rare Beef, Osso Bucco

                                 or Lamb Shanks

Description:              A pinnacle in winemaking

                                 achievement, rich, powerful

                                 and seductive.

COLOUR: Deep, inky, ruby, red.

BOUQUET: a complex array of ripe fruit aromas including mulberries, blueberries and plums. Secondary aromas of spice, plum pudding and pepper with hints of fragrant violets and mint.

PALATE: A robust full-bodied wine with concentrated fleshy mulberries and plums, complexed by earthy leather and tar. A powerful palate with velvety even tannins and a beautifully long finish.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

Eileen Hardy OBE, is fondly remembered as the matriarch of Australia’s best known winemaking and sailing family, In 1973, a wine vintage from the very finest Hardy Shiraz grapes was released in honour of Auntie Eileen’s 80^th birthday. Eileen Hardy, the wine, had been born and like the lady herself it was quite extraordinary.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE:

This wine is selected and blended from our finest parcels of Shiraz from the ironstone soils of McLaren Vale, and Padthaway in the South East. The wine was vinified using traditional equipment and techniques including small batch open fermenters and then basket pressed into new and 1 year old French oak barriques for 20 months maturation. Following blending, it was returned to oak prior to bottling and release after 36 months maturation.

Vintage:                   1998

Growing Area:          McLaren Vale 76%

                                 Padthaway 12%

                                 Clare Valley 10%

Grape Varieties:       Shiraz

Alcohol:                    14.6% by volume

Total Acidity:            6.8 grams/litre

pH:                            3.38

SHOW RESULTS:

Silver Medal             Class 47           2000 Hobart

Silver Medal             Class 20           1999 Brisbane