Name: 2016 Rusty Mutt Original Shiraz
Brand: Rusty Mutt
SKU: 16RMSHZ
Availability: InStock

2016 Rusty Mutt Original Shiraz

$35.00

There’s no mistaking this is a McLaren Vale Shiraz, right from the first moment you stick your nose into the glass! Blackberry fruits, chocolate, oak and spice on the nose with a rich silky palate.

Will put many higher priced wines to shame but you don’t need to wait for a special occasion!

100% McLaren Vale Shiraz

91 Points James Halliday 2021 Wine Companion

95 POINTS Sam Kim ‘Wine Orbit’ Feb 2020

4 Stars Winestate Magazine Feb 2020

93 POINTS Thomas Girgensohn

Bloody Gorgeous! – Dan Traucki Nov 2019

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The most renowned variety in McLaren Vale.

Shiraz

Shiraz is with out a doubt, the most important grape variety grown in Australia. Penfolds, and many other reputable producers, have done a great job of elevating this variety to the very pinnacle of quality and desire. The flavours, aromas and textures of Shiraz are hard to beat. It has broad appeal to many consumers, even from many Australian regions producing a spectrum of styles. McLaren Vale produces very well balanced and structured wines with ripe dark fruit flavours, chocolate and pepper and spice savoury characters. The Rusty Mutt Original Shiraz is no exception. Careful selection of vineyard sites allows us to produce a deeply flavoured and smoothly textured wine filled with chocolate, red berries and herb and spice notes.

Style features

Open fermented, hand plunged and basket pressed. Matured in 3-5 YO French & American oak Hogsheads.

Vintage Rating

8/10. A warm growing season which produced rich, ripe concentrated wines.

Food Matching

Enjoy with your favourite cut of aged red meat, quickly cooked and judiciously seasoned.

When to drink

Drink now to 2028.

Five vineyards in five districts, crushed and destemmed, open-fermented, 8 days on skins, 30 months in 60% American/40% French oak (12% new). A regional dark chocolate coating to the blackberry and plum fruit, the tannins where they should be.91 POINTS James Halliday 2021 Wine Companion

It’s sweetly fruited and fabulously expressed on the nose showing blackberry, sweet cherry, warm spice and cedar characters. The palate is equally gratifying with excellent weight and plush mouthfeel wonderfully complemented by silky texture and rounded tannins, making it hugely appealing. At its best: now to 2028. AU$35.00. www.rustymutt.com.au. Feb 2020. 95 POINTS Sam Kim, Wine Orbit

“A powerful old school style Shiraz with the oak dominating the attractive varietal fruit characters. Nice dusty tannins.” 4 STARS Winestate Magazine

"This is a bigger wine. However, the vibrant acidity brightens up the blackberry and black cherry fruit. There is some Shiraz sweetness on the mid-palate in this medium- to full-bodied wine. I enjoyed the refreshing finish." 93 POINTS Thomas Girgensohn

"Superb purple colour, subtle complex bouquet with a dash of dried herbs in it, Uber tasty palate with layers of flavour, great depth, silky smooth with a splash of vanillin oak- BLOODY GORGEOUS!!" Dan Traucki 11/19