Durif is a rich and robust red grape variety that revels in the warm and dry conditions of the familys Manuka Grove Vineyard at Hanwood in the Riverina. Durif is otherwise known as Petit Syrah.
Aromas of ripe blackberry, plum and cherry with hints of aniseed and all-spice.
A full-bodied wine displaying soft chewy tannins and a youthful fine acid balance with a generous palate of dark cherry and plum pudding with dusty chocolate, earth and spice.
It's the only single vineyard Shiraz in the 2009 Story wines lineup and is made in typical Story style - careful oak treatment, natural long ferments, the lot. Quality winemaking for sure.
It all kicks off with a ripe, musky, glace berry nose of classic plum esssence Grampians fruit.
It's a little fruitcake like in it's intensity, but that's largely a product of extreme youth. Palate too is ripe and young, glossy and juicy, the sweet vanilla pod oak giving an attractive creamy edge.