Torbreck Vintners
The Struie Barossa Valley Shiraz
Barossa Valley, Barossa, South Australia, Australia
The Struie is also a 100% Shiraz, but what makes this one different and quite interesting is that it comes from the quarter of Eden Valley, from old vines growing at high elevation. This gives the wine more powerful fruit, muscular textures, elegant tannins, and juicy dark black and blue fruit character. Umame soy on the nose, along with aromas of blueberry cobbler, crushed rock, red apple skins, milk chocolate, tar, and grilled meat. Fairly muscular texture but the tannins fall off like silk - black plum jam, lavender, vanilla, cocoa nibs, and a less grippy finish than the other Shiraz wines I tried. Outstanding wine for value, considering this one comes in at half the price of the Descendant and The Factor.
What is most amazing in my opinion is that oddly he started us off with one of the most expensive and best wines they make, RunRig, and descended the price spectrum finishing with their $20 Shiraz, and even weirder the $17 Semillon to end the tasting. What is amazing about that is that the wines did not once degrade in quality or complexity. They ALL performed as great as the more expensive RunRig. That truly shows they only make wine that exceeds their standards, and if it doesn't, it is declassified for other projects.
The Struie is also a 100% Shiraz, but what makes this one different and quite interesting is that it comes from the quarter of Eden Valley, from old vines growing at high elevation. This gives the wine more powerful fruit, muscular textures, elegant tannins, and juicy dark black and blue fruit character. Umame soy on the nose, along with aromas of blueberry cobbler, crushed rock, red apple skins, milk chocolate, tar, and grilled meat. Fairly muscular texture but the tannins fall off like silk - black plum jam, lavender, vanilla, cocoa nibs, and a less grippy finish than the other Shiraz wines I tried. Outstanding wine for value, considering this one comes in at half the price of the Descendant and The Factor.
What is most amazing in my opinion is that oddly he started us off with one of the most expensive and best wines they make, RunRig, and descended the price spectrum finishing with their $20 Shiraz, and even weirder the $17 Semillon to end the tasting. What is amazing about that is that the wines did not once degrade in quality or complexity. They ALL performed as great as the more expensive RunRig. That truly shows they only make wine that exceeds their standards, and if it doesn't, it is declassified for other projects.
The Struie is where the Torbreck wines begin a bigger jump into a much more crafted quality wine. The one has 20% of of it's fruit from Eden Valley which gives it more elegance. Darker, richer fruits, bigger, bolder, round lush mouthfeel, nice layers of spices and all the wines we tasted had beautiful acidity. This producer is really starting to push their quality further and further. Buy them now before they really begin to ascend in price.
The Struie is where the Torbreck wines begin a bigger jump into a much more crafted quality wine. The one has 20% of of it's fruit from Eden Valley which gives it more elegance. Darker, richer fruits, bigger, bolder, round lush mouthfeel, nice layers of spices and all the wines we tasted had beautiful acidity. This producer is really starting to push their quality further and further. Buy them now before they really begin to ascend in price.
1 person found it helpfulApr 6th, 2017
