Description
Tuck into a bold, “Fresh and vibrant” (Hallliday) fruit forward McLaren Vale Shiraz with scores of 92 & 93pts. Huon Hooke declares it “A whopper” in The Real Review, but it's now perfectly mature and drinking excellently. From the Collett family “among the best known in McLaren Vale” (Halliday)
Named after a set of medieval wooden leg stocks, which stand in the town of Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England, ‘The Stocks’ Shiraz is Woodstock’s flagship wine. This single vineyard Shiraz is made from 31 rows of low-yielding vines, planted circa 1900 on a sandy north slope of Woodstock Estate.
“The sting of toasty vanillin oak is pronounced but the fruit beneath is fresh and vibrant… The redcurrant, the iced coffee, the drifts of saltbush, the rich, sweet plum… there's no denying the fruit. 93pts” (Campbell Mattinson, The Halliday Wine Companion).
