The wine, hailing from the 2016 vintage, is a supreme example of rich and luscious Barossa Shiraz. On the Palate, Rich, round, spicy and intense with great length and complexity.
Sourced from a tiny single block of vineyard planted in 1915, the very deep garnet-purple 2013 Fifteen Shiraz is a brand new, 100% Shiraz wine aged in 100% new French oak. It opens to an incredible nose loaded with dark chocolate and crushed blueberries, plums, cloves, raw meat, licorice, tar and a whiff of incense. Big, powerful and concentrated, it is built like a brick house and framed by firm, grainy tannins. It finishes quite earthy and long in the finish. RP
$ 1,668
Elderton Fifteen Shiraz 2015
RP
95₊
WS
94
Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, the 2015 Fifteen Shiraz has a profoundly scented nose of creme de cassis, black forest cake, cedar box, Marmite, chargrill and dried mulberries with spicy touches of cinnamon stick, vanilla and cloves. Concentrated, full-bodied and packed with berry preserves and spice flavors, it has a firm backbone of rounded tannins and ample freshness, finishing long with the oak poking through slightly. RP
$ 1,668
Elderton Fifteen Shiraz 2017
RP
97
The 2017 Fifteen Shiraz—to be released next year—is embryonic, showcasing blueberry and blackberry fruit and a veneer of French oak. It's full-bodied, concentrated and rich, densely packed with layers of slowly unfolding flavor, notes of cracked pepper and licorice and hints of mocha on the long finish. The fruit is from a parcel of vines planted in 1915 in the Greenock subregion of Barossa. RP
$ 1,668
Elderton Fifteen Shiraz 2018 (Helbig 1915)
RP
97₊
JH
85
JS
97
Blackberry and plum with spicy cloves and a touch of aniseed. Rich and structured, brooding with spicy plums and ripe fruit. A firm, long tannin structure underpins and carries the fruit through the palate.