Tyrrell's Sacred Sites 8 Acres Shiraz 2022

A$175.00

 

A$166.25

Availability
In stock
Volume
750ml
Maker
Tyrrells
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Varieties
Region/Country
Hunter Valley, Australia
Rating
98 points

Vintages

2022

Description

The 8 Acres Vineyard is one of Tyrrell's sacred sites, a vineyard on its own roots (ungrafted) which is more than 100 years old. In 2004, Tyrrell's decided that if the vines were still healthy and producing great wine after 100 years, then those wines deserved to be made and bottled individually, and so the Sacred Sites range was born.

The 8 Acres Vineyard was planted in 1892 on deep red clay soils over limestone. Situated just below the 4 Acres Vineyard, the vine orientation is north/south, opposite to 4 Acres, which runs east/west and produces a different style of wine altogether. The 2022 release of the 8 Acres Shiraz celebrates the 130th anniversary of this historic vineyard, which produces one of Australia’s most unique wines. The fruit has its own unique style and structure, and the wine is only ever produced in outstanding vintages.

The fruit was handpicked and sorted in the vineyard before fermentation took place in our open top vats. After fermentation, the wine was matured in a single three-year-old French oak cask for 14 months. Intense purple colour, the nose shows riper, pretty, attention grabbing aromatics. The palate has a pure red fruited clarity and wonderful round shape that coats the mouth. The acid and tannin, similar to 4 Acres, work seamlessly together giving the wine drive and length.

Ratings

Score
98 points
Reviewer
Erin Larkin
Review

This year, the 2022 8 Acres Shiraz seems to me to be the synthesis of 4 Acres and Johnno's. It has the supple, persistent drive of 4 Acres and the structure and filling of Johnno's. Together, they sing. This is excellent. It is supple, herbal, leafy and spicy, with notes of roses, tobacco, jasmine, lavender, black tea, peppercorns (pink and black and a few Sichuan), pomegranate, raspberry, iodine and blood plum. It is gorgeous, exciting, affirming. The 8 Acres vineyard was planted in 1892 on deep red clay soils over limestone. This was matured in a single three-year-old French oak cask for 14 months. 3,333 bottles filled. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drink: 2023 - 2048.

Score
96 points
Reviewer
Ned Goodwin MW
Review

Crunchy, brambly and brimming with summer-berry pudding accents, drawn taut by a chord of finely sewn tannins. This is the only wine of the 'Sacred Sites' that is inoculated. A more generous wine than the 4 Acres and easier to love, if not slightly less refined. Mid-weighted, but ever more forceful and kinetic across the mid-drift to the long finish, despite its definitive Hunter mid-weight. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

Score
95 points
Reviewer
Gary Walsh
Review

I include a couple of these in my standing order. I really like the 8A style. Ripe dark raspberry, perfume of roses, some spice, a little new leather. Good volume, pretty red fruits, a bit juicy too, bright acidity sits well in the wine, and there’s a gently chalky and creamy finish of substantial length, and it’s the flow and length that really mark it out as a top wine.

Specifications

Closure
Screw cap
Serving Temp.
16-18 °C
Alcohol
13.5%
Cellar until
Now - 2048
Decanter

Tasting Profile

Nose
Intense purple colour, the nose shows riper, pretty, attention grabbing aromatics.
Palate
The palate has a pure red fruited clarity and wonderful round shape that coats the mouth. The acid and tannin, similar to 4 Acres, work seamlessly together giving the wine drive and length.

Tyrrell's Sacred Sites 8 Acres Shiraz 2022

Tyrrell's Sacred Sites 8 Acres Shiraz 2022
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