The Chook

Shiraz Viognier

2020

McLaren Vale

South Australia

Australia

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The TCHOOK Shee-RAZ Vee-on-YAY

Varietals

Shiraz, Viognier

Flavors & Quality

Blackberry

Smoke

Licorice

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Palate Character

Round & Fleshy

This Wine Your Palate

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This is a predominantly Round & Fleshy wine, but it shares structural nuances of Tone & Backbone as described in the tasting note below.

Tasting Notes

Full bodied with attractive blackberry and red cherry fruit, along with mint, floral and musk notes, finishing with smokey black pepper and licorice spice.

COLOR

Dark Ruby Red

BODY

TANNIN

ACIDITY

SWEET

ALCOH.

14.5%

GRAPE(S)

Shiraz, Viognier

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Why this wine made the cut…

Finding inexpensive, yet complex wines makes us smile.

GRAPE VARIETAL(S)

Shiraz

96% Shee-RAS

Syrah is widely planted throughout the world, but that was not so until the late twentieth century when Syrah was principally grown in the Rhone Valley and, as Shiraz, in Australia. Stylistically, the Palate Character of Syrah can vary depending on ripeness from a rich Round & Fleshy, Tone & Backbone, to a Powerful & Extracted. The flavors and aromas can also vary with a dark, sometimes sweet, fruit character, varying amount of spice, floral, and earth, and smoke, and meaty aromas and flavors.

Viognier

4% Vyo-NYAY

Viognier almost went extinct in the 1960s, but has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity. Although grown around the word, it is most famous for the full bodied intensely aromatic floral white wines with a sometimes oily texture grown on granite terraces in Condrieu, and small amount to Syrah in Côte Rôtie, just north of Condrieu, adding aromatic complexity.

Country / State

Australia

Region

South Australia

Sub Region

McLaren Vale

Producer

The Chook

Vintage

2020