Aroma
This wine shines like a diamond, beautiful smells waft
from the glass. Both blue and black fruits preserve, matched with
clove, violet, vanilla, liquorice and cracked pepper.
Maturation
Aged for 18 months in French oak hogsheads,
with 15% new and the remainder in older oak 1-6 years old.
Appearance
Deep purple to black.
Palate
The fruit softly emerges along the palate, where your
greeted with the Barossa textural brilliance of turning from
robust and pure fruits and into a long and velvety texture.
This wine shows a remarkable poise for such a young wine, the
aromatics are clean and all so pure. The texture really creeps
up on you and the late palate has the most wonderful and soft
tannins, that linger as if in suspension. There is so much to like
and admire here. Barossa Valley purity in its best form, precise,
persistent and defined.
Vinification
Fermented in five to ten tonne open top fermenters, with regular pump overs (twice daily over entire ferment) to control ferment,
extract colour, flavour and tannins.
Average time ‘on skins’ was 7-10 days before being pressed to
tank, free run and pressings combined. The wine was then racked
to barrel, where malolactic fermentation took place. Bella’s
Garden was bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Range Notes
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 six 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.
