WINNER BOUTIQUE WINES OF AUSTRALIA WINE AWARDS 2003.
Winner of the RL Seppelt Perpetual Trophy for Best Dry Red, Class 51 at the Rutherglen Wine Show in 2002, our superb 2000 Carlyle Durif has collected a further accolade at the Boutique Wines of Australia Wine Awards 2003. The 2000 Carlyle Durif was top of the class in 'Best Other Red Varieties' Class 15, judged by Gary Baldwin, Oenologist, Wine Network Australia and Toni Paterson Master of Wine. Huon Hooke was the chairman.
STOP PRESS - TOP DURIF
Browse through the August/September edition of Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine and you will find All Saints Carlyle Durif at the top of the 'Top Durifs' list (I should add the list is in alphabetical order) accompanying a splendid article about Durif.
The 2000 Carlyle Durif is BIG, complex and well-structured with a lively palate dominated by outstanding fruit flavours, well-rounded tannins and a persistent finish. When looking for quality reds to lay down in a good cellar for medium-long term bottle ageing, one looks for fruit intensity, acid and tannin structure and overall balance. This red has the complete portfolio and with suitable cellaring should pay high dividends in 2008 2020.ORDERING IS EASY
PER BOTTLE
Cellar Door price $38.00
Wine Club price $30.40
6 BOTTLE PRESENTATION PACKS
Cellar Door price $228.00
Wine Club price $182.40
LIMITED RELEASE MAGNUMS
We have released 100 individually numbered magnums of this super-premium wine. Only 40 magnums are still available for sale. Each magnum is presented in a wooden case. Cellar Door price $111.10 Wine Club price $100.00
FREIGHT
$8 anywhere in Australia for the first case per order. Subsequent cases per order are freight free.
TO ORDER
Email wineclub@allsaintswine.com.au
Freecall 1800 021 621
Website www.allsaintswine.com.au
TASTING NOTES
The wine is a deep, dense crimson, almost black in colour with strong, Shiraz-like aromas with intense blackberry and aniseed and spicy French oak. The palate is rich and dominated by ripe blackberry fruit and aniseed flavours with well integrated oak, full-bodied, but with soft tannins and excellent length. Food Matching This full-bodied wine will go well with strongly-flavoured red meat dishes. While young enjoy it with oxtail ragout, lamb shanks, steak & kidney pie or similar hearty dishes. Variety Durif is a rare French hybrid of Shiraz and Peloursin propagated eponymously by Dr Durif in the Rhône Valley in South Eastern France in the 1880s. The variety was introduced into Rutherglen by Hubert De Castella who recommended the variety after phylloxera had devastated the region in the early 1900s. Durif is exceptionally well suited to the Rutherglen climate. In fact the region is so well known in Australia for the variety it is sometimes known as Rutherglen Durif even though the amount grown is quite small. Technical Details Maturation was in 68% new American puncheons, 29% one year old French puncheons, and 3% older barriques. After 12 months barrel maturation the wine was racked, coarse filtered and bottled. SALUTE!