Coopers Creek Shiraz SELECT VINEYARDS CHALK RIDGE

An orphan bottle bought on release and cellared in refrigerated storage until now. Incorrectly described in the CT wine name as "Shiraz" not "Syrah". From the time when NZ winemakers were just beginning to take Syrah seriously but realising NZ does not have a South Australian climate to produce full-on Aussie Shiraz. Here - as with other Hawkes Bay and Waiheke Island producers of the era, and now - trying to produce a more elegant, Northern Rhone model of Syrah. …