The Mouth Watering 2010 Long Road Shiraz and Two New Regional Wines
Nick Stock, The Age/SMH Good Wine Guide 2011, Winner: Best New Winery: “Canberra is an exciting region at the moment, and there are many new players hitting unthinkable heights of quality. Winemaker Nick Spencer has demonstrated – across a whole range of styles and prices – that Eden Road Wines is a force to be reckoned with.”
***** Outstanding Winery, James Halliday, 2012 Australian Wine Companion: “...Eden Road's operations since 2008 centre on Hilltops, Canberra District and Tumbarumba. At the Royal Melbourne Wine Show '09 Eden Road's The Long Road Hilltops Shiraz '08 was awarded the Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy; if it needed a higher profile, it now has one.”
Led by the talented Nick Spencer, Eden Road is a producer making ultra refined, expressive, wonderfully drinkable winess at more than fair prices. They are playing a leading role in the renaissance of Canberra and also breaking new ground with their NSW High Country releases. Gundagai Shiraz anyone?
Eden Road is now firmly ensconced in their new digs – a winery in Murrumbateman, replete with a mature vineyard on the local volcanic soils. Their neighbours include a little know producer called Clonakilla... who apparently make a tidy Shiraz or two? Eden Road is already recognised as one of the hottest prospects in the domestic wine scene and the quality of their new Estate fruit is bound to further enhance their reputation as a producer of wonderfully elegant, site-driven wines.
The new releases below are fabulous wines and are emblematic of what the Canberra District and many of the surrounding regions do best: plump, spicy Shiraz and intense, racy Riesling. The new-wave 2011 Canberra Riesling, fermented in large format, neutral oak, is a lightning bolt of...
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