New vintage. Longhop Shiraz is one of the best value reds we have come across for some time. Made by the highly regarded Domenic Torzi, grapes for this wine are sourced from the Mount Lofty ranges on the outskirts of Adelaide. Quality fruit, sound winemaking and careful oak selection ensure this wine goes from strength to strength with each vintage released.
"92 Points. Longhop Shiraz has fast established a reputation as one of Australia’s best value reds. This 2009 version is up there with the best of them. Dense colour, dense flavour, lakes of tannin and a good, dry, long finish. Remarkable that this sells for $15. Lovely clip of fresh, slippery, ceday oak (French and American) matches beautifully to minty, blackberried, smoky fruit flavour. There are some sweet, raisiny characters too, forming part of a delicous parade. Very impressive wine. Drink: 2011 - 2016" - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front.
"92 Points. The determined Dominic Torzi and his mate Tim Freeland manage here to make a soulful red with all the comforting plum pudding richness which made our Shiraz popular to a world whose critics suddenly despise this character. But it also has a savoury, dry stony base, which by all rights and means should reverse their disdain. It has the thick texture which makes the amarone dried fruit styles distinctive, but counterpoints that with beautiful acidity and the sort of terroir-sourced schist rock/sandstone tannins which cannot fail to make the drinker yearn for warm antipasto, tapas, mezes, or big field mushrooms, root veg and dribbling steak" - Philip White, Adelaide Review, May 5, 2010.
"Love a Bargain?. Food match: Roast pork. Made from grapes off old, low-yielding vines, this wine has fragrant aromas of blackberries and cherries, with hints of eucalypt, white pepper and vanilla oak. It’s full-bodied and fills the mouth with intense flavours of plums, fruitcake, blackberry and a hint of olive. There’s loads of dusty, drying tannin and bright acid and this is equally happy alongside food or a fireplace. I’m not sure how, or why, this is so cheap - the $15 is no mistake, though - so scoop this up for the cold nights ahead" - Ben Thomas, Weekly Review Melbourne, June 2010.
