Description
The Pepper Tree winery was founded in 1991 and has been developed as one of the show pieces of Hunter Valley Wine Country. It is part of a quality food, wine and accommodation triumvirate comprising Peppers Convent Guesthouse, Circa 1876 and Pepper Tree Wines with its surrounding manicured gardens and vineyards. The popular boutique Cellar Door has been a regular winner in the tourism arena – complementing the Pepper Tree wine success on the show circuit. Pepper Tree produces premium varietal wines sourced from its own vineyards in the Hunter, Orange, Coonawarra and Wrattonbully regions. Pepper Tree currently produces more than forty thousand cases per year with distribution well beyond cellar door into specialty stores and fine restaurants throughout Australia and selected international markets. Pepper Tree has also branched out into hand roasting coffee onsite with the new addition of Contango Espresso-Roasters to enhance the customer experience.
Pepper Tree Shiraz Hunter Valley 2013
Pepper Tree Wines Tasting Note
Concentrated aromas of mulberry and blackberry, complexed by spice notes and well integrated savoury oak. A fruit driven Shiraz displaying berry fruits balanced by fine tannins and subtle oak complexity providing a classically elegant finish. Our Coquun (Hunter River) Shiraz is produced from the famous ‘Tallawanta’ Vineyard planted in 1920. These 90 year old vines produce tiny quantities of intensely flavoured fruit. Tallawanta Vineyard, between Hunter Valley Gardens and Harrigan’s Irish Pub, in Broke Road, Polkolbin forerly owned by the Elliott family is now leased to Pepper Tree Wines from the now owners, the Roche family. Continously creating outstanding fruit each year, the vines are dry land grown, thus ensuring low yields and high quality fruit. The vineyard soil is quite typical of the Hunter Valley with a mixture of sandy loam and red volcanic clay.
97 Points – 2016 James Halliday Australian Wine Companion
The Tallawanta Vineyard vines are over 90yo, planted in ‘20, and for long owned by the Elliott family. It’s hard to visualise – unless you taste it, of course – how such intensity, purity and length van be achieved by a wine that has such finesse and elegance to its well of blackberry, black cherry and spice fruit, tannins and oak judged to perfection.
97 Points – Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine February/March 2015
From the Tallawanta Vineyard, but more elegant than the Tallawanta label . The aromas are raspberry, spices, cherry and dried herbs, while the palate is intense and lively with great drive and length. There are hints of violets and smoke.
2014 CF Block Limited Release HV Shiraz (Class 29) – GOLD
2014 Coquun Single Vineyard HV Shiraz (Class 11) – Silver
2013 Tallavera Limited Release HV Shiraz (Class 30) – Silver
2014 Tallawanta Single Vineyard HV Shiraz (Class 29) – Bronze
2013 Coquun Single Vineyard HV Shiraz (Class 16) – Bronze
2014 Limited Release HV Shiraz (Class 11) – Bronze
2014 Tallavera Limited Release HV Shiraz (Class 29) – Bronze
