Neldner Road Barossa Valley Shiraz 2023
The Wine
Drawn from the Marananga, Seppeltsfield and Lyndoch districts of the Barossa Valley, from vines averaging 25 years old on dark red-brown sands and red clay. Hand-picked and fermented in open-top concrete vats before basket pressing, then 18 months in large format 4,500 litre French oak foudre. Bottled without fining or filtration.
Generous dark plum and blackberry with notes of tar, graphite and dried herbs. The palate is rounded and supple, with a coffee and cedar backbone and a finish of dark fruit and white pepper spice.
The Details
Variety - Shiraz
Country - Australia
Region - South Australia
Sub Region - Barossa
Extra - Screwcap
Year - 2023
Volume - 750ml
About the Wine Maker 
Dave Powell is a Barossa legend. He cut his teeth at Rockford before founding Torbreck in 1994, the label that came to define an entire era of Barossa Shiraz. Neldner Road is his return, by his own account, to the instincts that shaped his earliest and best work.
Named for the road where his Marananga winery sits, Neldner Road draws fruit from two places Powell knows better than almost anyone: the warm Western Barossa and the cooler, high altitude Flaxman’s Valley in the Eden Valley. Many of these vineyards are ones he personally brought back from neglect over twenty years ago, now farmed with a minimalist hand and finished the old fashioned way, open concrete ferments, basket pressing, French oak maturation.
One of Barossa’s most respected winemakers, back doing what he does best.
