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If you’ve drunk Astralis Clarendon Hills Winery then either you or your mates are not short of funds. Bratasiuk’s unfiltered and unfined, ripe, extracted reds, aged in French oak, are subjected to a extended cuvaison and exhibit a depth and dimension that most Australian reds really don't even technique. Some early vintages had questionable stability and marginal ranges of volatility but all is being mastered and refined as the array expands and gains greater definition by means of the use of vineyard or sub-regional names. With no significantly less than 19 single vineyard single varietal wines, Bratasiuk, although not the to start with to do so, is supplying an option to the brand-title-only marketeers who reveal treasured small about their sources (likewise yields), even at a premium degree. Reds, particularly Shiraz (labelled Syrah) and Grenache are powerful, broadly structured as properly as quite concentrated, marvellously complex and prolonged in the ideal bottlings. All the names refer to a unique vineyard or vineyards located in 3 sub-zones of McLaren Vale, Clarendon, Blewitt Springs and Kangarilla. Other wines (not tasted) involve Brookman Merlot, Onkaparinga Syrah and Grenache, Hickenbottom Grenache and Liandra Mourvèdre. A new vineyard planted large in the Clarendon Hills promises more exciting developments making a new premium Syrah, Domaine Clarendon although Mourvèdre now comes from Liandra and Merlot from the Brookman Vineyard.

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