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2008 Torbreck, The Steading, Barossa Valley, Australia

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Grenache (60%),Shiraz (20%),Mourvèdre (20%)
Ready, but will keep
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
90/100
Product: 20088125527
2008 Torbreck, The Steading, Barossa Valley, Australia

Description

Harvested in late March this is, to a fashion, the flagship of the estate in that it exemplifies all that the estate is about. The bush vines of Grenache, Shiraz and Mataro, planted at the turn of the century, give an almost Burgundian elegance to a wine whose components would suggest southern Rhone. The palate is elegant and pure with subtle notes of crushed cherries, earth and cedar all neatly wound by a taut spine of acidity and ripe supple tannins. This will reward a few years in the cellar with interest and, notably, it is invariably David’s favourite wine of the range.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2008
Alcohol % 15
Maturity Ready, but will keep
Grape List Grenache (60%),Shiraz (20%),Mourvèdre (20%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Torbreck

Critics reviews

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 90/100
Blended of Grenache, Shiraz and Mataro, the 2008 The Steading gives a deep garnet color and aromas of warm mulberries and dried plums with an undercurrent of spice box, sandalwood and kirsch. Very full and generous in the mouth with a good amount of enlivening acidity, it is displaying mature, dried berry and spice flavors textured with a medium level of velvety tannins and finishing long. Drinking now, it should remain good to 2016+.Lisa Perrotti-Brown - 23/12/2011
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, (Dec 2011)

About this wine

Grenache/Garnacha

Grenache (Noir) is widely grown and comes in a variety of styles. Believed to originate in Spain, it was, in the late 20th century, the most widely planted black grape variety in the world. Today it hovers around seventh in the pecking order. It tends to produce very fruity, rich wines that can range quite widely in their level of tannin. In many regions – most famously the Southern Rhône, where it complements Syrah and Mourvèdre, among other grapes – it adds backbone and colour to blends, but some of the most notable Châteauneuf du Pape producers (such as Château Rayas) make 100 percent Grenache wines. The grape is a component in many wines of the Languedoc (where you’ll also find its lighter-coloured forms, Grenache Gris and Blanc) and is responsible for much southern French rosé – taking the lead in most Provence styles. Found all over Spain as Garnacha Tinta (spelt Garnaxa in Catalonia), the grape variety is increasingly detailed on wine labels there. Along with Tempranillo, it forms the majority of the blend for Rioja’s reds and has been adopted widely in Navarra, where it produces lighter styles of red and rosado (rosé). It can also be found operating under a pseudonym, Cannonau, in Sardinia.
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Torbreck

Torbreck was established in 1994 and is located at Marananga on the western ridge of the Barossa Valley. It is named after a forest situated just south of Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. Founded by David Powell, a former lumberjack who worked in various vineyards to hone his oenological skills, Torbreck’s first releases in 1997 of a 1995 Runrig (Shiraz/Viognier) and 1996 The Steading (Grenache/Mataro/Shiraz) were greeted with rapturous applause by critics and connoisseurs alike. The winery is overseen by Senior Winemaker Craig Isbel and his team. The overwhelming majority of his vines are dry-grown, nearly all are 100 - 165 years old and are tended and harvested by hand. The wines have an extraordinary combination of power, intensity, complexity and great finesse.
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