'The Cruth' Icon Shiraz

2022 |  McLaren Vale |  Icon Shiraz

The Icon Wine, distinct of Haselgrove’s house style and keeping in line with the principle of Knowledge, Honesty, Purity and Creativity. The best fruit from the best barrels are creatively blended to produce a silky textural and complete wine with up front drinkability and exceptional ageing potential.

Aroma

Intensely complex, rich mullberry and blackberry are integrated with fresh redcurrant and hints of black cherry. Delicate savoury oak is seamlessly integrated with notes of bitter chocolate and roasted sweet spices with hints of dried herbs and roasted almonds.

Palate

Full bodied, rich and balanced fruits of blackberry, mullberry and sweet spice. Complex and luscious with layers of black fruit, chocolate and toasted nuts. Balanced acidity with great powdery tannins provide length, weight and roundness while displaying finesse and poise. A concentrated beauty that will age gracefully for the next 10-20 years.

Vineyards
Blended from 2 subregional vineyards, one in Blewitt Springs and the other Haselgrove’s own 40 year blocks of Shiraz in McLaren flat. The Blewitt Springs vineyard is situated on Sandy soil, with a slight westerly aspect and East West row orientation. Blewitt Springs produces structural wines with strong fruit tannin, dark berry fruit and rich plum with hints of savouriness. The blocks from McLaren Flat are on a gentle Northerly aspect in deep sand with East West row orientation. These blocks give more floral notes and a fruit spectrum more pronounced in red fruit.

Region: McLaren Vale
Alcohol  15% pH 3.73  TA 6.6
Variety Shiraz
Harvest Dates 23rd of February to 1st of March

Bottling Date 1st of February 2024
Cellaring Now to 2041 
Bottles Produced 2,333 bottles Shiraz

Winemaking 

Destemmed as whole berries to open fermenters, where mixed culture yeasts are
used. Fermented at 22 28 degrees and plunged 2 x day with air used to rumble the cap during peak ferment. On skins for 10 days before pressing direct to new and 1–2 year old French oak Hogsheads. Both vineyard batches are kept separate right through maturation, after 18 months of maturation in barrel, the barrels are individually selected to give the most complete tannin profile from both oak and vineyard, with fullness, definition and length the ultimate goal.