2020 Ox Hardy Slate Shiraz - 6x75cl
15C0OHSS6PK _ 2020 - Ox Hardy Slate Shiraz - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Ox Hardy
  • Region McLaren Vale
  • Drinking 2025 - 2037
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Now

2020 - Ox Hardy Slate Shiraz - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Ox Hardy
  • Region McLaren Vale
  • Drinking 2025 - 2037
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Now
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Case price: £261.00 Duty Paid inc VAT
Equivalent Bottle Price: £43.50 Duty Paid inc VAT
Case price: £201.47 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis, January 2023

    The Slate Shiraz is a remarkable wine that is made using the same original slate open fermenters, that Thomas Hardy himself used one hundred years ago. The 2020 is impossibly good, its perfume a delightful medley of rich red, blue, and black fruit imbued with smoke, cracked pepper, camphor and dark rock. Beautifully vivid floral notes of violet, lavender and eucalyptus emerge with time in the glass. The open slate fermenters work magic on the tannic structure of this wine, and the velvet-like fruit spreads itself in mouth-watering layers of delicious intensity. The shining, sumptuous fruit, while enveloping, is never heavy, supported by a sleek freshness. The pillowy finish reveals soft balsamic and minerals. This is one to lay down and forget about for a while. Drink 2025-2037.

  • Wine Advocate, September 2022, Score: 93

    Very good. This 2020 Upper Tintara Vineyard Slate Shiraz has all the polish and intensity of the Upper Tintara Shiraz, but it is mineral and detailed as well. It is a very fine expression of McLaren Vale Shiraz. There are notes of pink peppercorns, salted licorice, raspberries and black tea. Sensational stuff. Drink 2022-2032.

  • Matthew Jukes, January 2023, Score: 19

    2020 Slate Shiraz McLaren Vale comes from the Moreton Bay Block (there is a fig tree in the vineyard). Old-style winemaking, destemmed, handplunged, old barriques for 18 months and Bob’s your uncle. But what you don’t know while you are going through the motions is that this is one of my favourite discoveries since my last 100 Best back in 2019! This is sooty, skin-influenced, slate-soaked wine with a deep purple Moreton Fig glossiness that gives it a character like no other wine I have tasted! This is a heroic red that is so serious and impressive that it defies convention. I imagine it would be sensational without the slate fermenters, given that the fruit is so intense and aromatic, but this is pure magic with the slate!

Producer

Ox Hardy

Ox Hardy is the personal passion project of winemaker Andrew ‘Ox’ Hardy, formerly chief winemaker at cult estate Petaluma in the Adelaide Hills. Twenty years ago, he began making tiny amounts of wine for the family to drink from cherished old vines, some first planted in the 1800s by his great great grandfather Thomas Hardy. This McLaren Vale estate has become revered for its small-production Shiraz. They are deeply impress...Read more

Ox Hardy is the personal passion project of winemaker Andrew ‘Ox’ Hardy, formerly chief winemaker at cult estate Petaluma in the Adelaide Hills. Twenty years ago, he began making tiny amounts of wine for the family to drink from cherished old vines, some first planted in the 1800s by his great great grandfather Thomas Hardy. This McLaren Vale estate has become revered for its small-production Shiraz. They are deeply impressive wines, and as leading wine critic Matthew Jukes says, “No self-respecting wine collector can declare their cellar complete without a few cases of these wines in their racks”. Goedhuis CEO Tom Stopford Sackville first met Andrew Hardy, while harvesting the 1989 vintage at Petaluma in the Adelaide Hills. Roll forward 32 years, Tom and the whole Goedhuis team are understandably excited and honoured to represent Ox Hardy as exclusive UK importer. Ox shares our enthusiasm: "I am delighted and honoured that Goedhuis Co. are importing and distributing my wines in the UK. I worked with Tom at Petaluma in 1989 when we were both young fellas. How fortuitous that 32 years later we are linked through wines that I have been making for some years from the Upper Tintara Vineyard my great-great grandfather bought in 1871. The wines are true expressions of this grand old vineyard and I feel the Goedhuis team is an ideal fit. The portfolio is tight and excellent, representing many of the worlds' great estates, and it is wonderful to be in such company. I look forward to many happy years with Goedhuis Co."Read less

Region

McLaren Vale

McLaren Vale's vineyards can be found in South Australia on the rolling hills stretching from southof Adelaide to south of Morphett Vale. The region produces big red wines of excellent quality from Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon mainly. These rich reds, especially the Shiraz, can often be distinguished by their dark chocolate, warm-earth character. The complex range of soils in the region also means that many other grape varieties can be seen to grow, such as old-vine Grenache, Chardonnay, Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc.

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