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. Bellas 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.
