Torbreck The Factor Shiraz 2023
The Factor pays homage to the Barossa’s unique point of difference – great old Shiraz vineyards and the growers who painstakingly tend and nurture them each year.
The Factor is a powerful expression of old-vine Shiraz sourced from select vineyards along the Barossa Valley’s Western Ridge. Fruit is hand-harvested and fermented in traditional open-top fermenters, with extended skin contact to develop depth and tannin structure. The wine is then basket-pressed and matured for 24 months in a combination of new and seasoned French oak barriques.
Bottled unfined and unfiltered, The Factor captures the bold, brooding character of Barossa Shiraz with remarkable balance and longevity.
Many of these vineyards were planted in the 19th century and because of South Australia’s far-sighted quarantine policy, were not affected by the phylloxera outbreak that ravaged the vineyards of the world in the 1880s. They survive on their own roots more than a century later as clonal time capsules.
The reputation of the Barossa as the pre-eminent red wine growing region of Australia rests firmly on wines such as this.
Torbreck is the name of a forest near Inverness, Scotland and you’ll find more than a passing nod to the Celts in our wine naming conventions. The manager on a highland estate is referred to as The Factor.
Roast beef and jus.
Very expressive with lifted black fruits such as satsuma plum, blackberry compote, maraschino cherry, vanilla bean, dark cocoa and a secondary note of black tea, dark cocoa and espresso grounds. Complex, luxuriously dense and alluring. The mineral components highlight Barossa Ironstone, dried earth and eucalypt.
The wine’s voluptuous texture envelops the mouth with soft yet dense tannins and mouth filling viscosity. The flavours linger and the cleansing acidity polishes the palates gorgeous length and depth. Oak maturation is harmonious and well-integrated adding to complexity on release.
