Introduction

Mungo Park was an 18th century Scotsman who explored the land in Nigeria, West Africa. Mungo Park comes from our single vineyard series that owes its existence to the many great blocks of old vine Shiraz that have remained since the early settlers arrived. The vines are 80 year old gnarled Shiraz. The Mungo Park vineyard is found in one of the coolest climate sections of the Northern Barossa Valley.

Tasting Notes

Dark and red to maroon centre with opaque purple and red flashes on the edge. A highly aromatic and complex Shiraz with great natural fruit presence showing blackberry, mulberry, dark chocolate, plums, olives, earth and a touch of acid as well as oak. The palate has concentrated flavours of ripe blackberry, spicy plum, dark chocolate and pepper with some obvious natural fruit acidity. The juicy, dark tannins have a wonderful length and line, which ensures the wine lingers for an extended period whilst the oak stands in place perfectly and allows the natural fruit acid and notes of pepper to give additional length. The wine is best left to breathe for an hour or two prior to consuming if drinking in the next 2-3 years. This will allow the wine to open up as it will be tightly wound up before age allows it to show its true beauty.

Winemaking

Mungo Park is a single vineyard wine sourced from the famed sub region of Northern Barossa Valley – the Moppa, near the Kalimna Vineyard, which is the mother vineyard of “Grange”. The vines themselves are up to 80 years old and are cropped, using green harvesting, at less than 3.5 tonne to the acre. Grapes were hand picked at dawn and received fermentation, like our top wines Exile and Émigré, which is conducted in small open top fermenters, followed by malolactic fermentation and ageing in 100 per cent new French oak barrels.

Region Barossa Valley
Cellaring Drinking well now and over the next decade
Alcohol 14.5%

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