Lily's Garden Shiraz '21
Two Hands Wines
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The pick of the bunch from the McLaren Vale vineyards. Lily’s Garden is a generous wine with cascading blue fruits and a rich long palate. General sand based soils provide lovely lifted aromatics, softness and roundness. The label’s blue color takes inspiration from McLaren Vale’s close proximity to the sea.
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- Wine Country
- Australia
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- Grape varieties wine
- Shiraz
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- Wine-food combination
- The Garden Series of Two Hands will go very well with grilled meat, lamb shoulder slow cooked, but also an Italian Pasta dish like al’ arrabiata or Ragu.
About this wine
Description & facts
Fascinated about isolating a wine to its region and wanting to define and showcase the individual characteristics of the best Australian shiraz growing regions, Two Hands have successfully demonstrated regionality within Australian shiraz for many years with the Garden Series. Showcasing these wines, each sourced from a premium shiraz growing region in Australia, all handled identically in terms of vinification and maturation on the Two Hands’ estate winery in Marananga, the Garden Series accurately reflects the soil, climate and other aspects of each unique region.
- Producer
- Two Hands Wines
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Wine Region
- McLaren Vale
- Vintage
- 2021
- Grape varieties wine
- Shiraz
- Tasting note
- Lily's Garden has a deep, dence inky black color with aroma's of stewed plum, liquorice, pain grille, fresh espresso, dark spices and menthol. The opening palate is very rich and dense; thick and creamy is the order of the day. It coats every corner of your mouth and then explodes forth with a huge amount of sway and appeal, as the fruit washes over your whole tounge. There is a lot to like here, it’s a real sit up and take notice wine which I really admire. Layered and textured with lovely coating and drying tannin broaden the wine out and give it persistence with an easy pleasure. The tannins have a sternness that give a mineral burst to the late palate.
- Wine-food combination
- The Garden Series of Two Hands will go very well with grilled meat, lamb shoulder slow cooked, but also an Italian Pasta dish like al’ arrabiata or Ragu.
- Vinification
- Fermented in a five-ten tonne open top fermenter, with regular pump overs (2 times daily over entire ferment) to control ferment, extract color, flavor and tannins. Average time ‘on skins’ was 10 days before the dry free run was drained to tank and the pressings combined. The wine was then racked to barrel, where malolactic fermentation took place. Lily’s Garden is bottled unfined and unfiltered. Aged for 18 months in 15% in new French oak hogshead. With the remainder in 1-6 year old French oak hogsheads.
- Location Vineyard
- The grapes are harvested in McLaren Vale, within these sub districts: Blewitt Springs, Clarendon, McLaren Flat, McLaren Vale, Seaview, Tatachilla, Willunga Hills at an elevation of 275-320m.
- Soil
- A mix of maritime and sedimentary sand-based soil.
- Closure
- Cork
- Serving temperature
- 16-18 °C
