2 Trophies, 48 Gold Medals James Halliday Rating 95! Wines such as Jasper Hill and Red Edge have paved the way for Heathcote newcomers such as Whistling Eagle, Tatiarra, Buckshot, and our fabled Tyrrells Rufus Stone. One quiet (sic) achiever is Hanging Rock Winery, renowned for its Macedon cuvees, which has been producing Heathcote Shiraz for the past decade. The predominant source, 'Athols Paddock' is one of the few well established Heathcote vineyards, aged around 15 years. In 2002 yields were well down throughout the Heathcote region. The resulting wine is powerful and intense with concentrated fruit character and abundant tannin. This is the third vintage to make use of new, 'steam-bent', medium toast, American oak barriques that engender a smoother, subtler oak character in the wine, and with less vanillan influences. The wine was matured in this oak for eighteen months. Hanging Rock's fruit is always picked on flavour, and in this aspect of the wine they aim for consistency. The new oak is subtler, smoother and more integrated, the fruit characters are more prominent. It is a rich, elegant wine, beautifully balanced and with great cellaring potential. The colour is deep, intense purple/mulberry and the nose exhibits elegant, plum/berry aromas with a gentle oak presence and some mintiness. On the palate it has a silky texture, complexity, delicious intense plum and berry flavours with an excellent balance between the fruit, oak and tannin. Dense and opaque massively concentrated and focused sweet, spicy blackberry fruit. Handles the oak and alcohol with ease. Rating 95. Drink 2022. James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion 2005 Notes partly sourced from Hanging Rock
Hanging Rock
 Established in 1983 by John and Ann Ellis, the winery sits on The Jim Jim, a hill facing Hanging Rock and in the winter, enduring the cold (The Macedon Ranges Region is arguably Australia's coolest grape growing region). Hanging Rock |
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