The winemakers behind Songlines are David Fatches and John Duval, two of Australia’s finest and most highly regarded makers of wine. As these winemakers sat with some more talented wine professionals in a French Château, a truly international dream was formed; to carefully seek out and select the highest quality grapes in Australia and produce an innovative and powerful wine that embraces all of the greatest secrets of ‘Old World’ winemaking with intoxicating Australian personality.
Songlines fruit comes from the 40-110 year old, flawless Shiraz vineyards in the McLaren Vale, one of the oldest and best established of the wine growing regions of South Australia.
These vines have in the past provided grapes for some of Australia's most famous wines, including Penfolds Grange. However, the uncompromising selection of individual vineyards means this is the first time their grapes have been assembled as a single wine.
The quality of the fruit is also a direct reflection of the pride and experience of several dedicated vignerons. Experts and artists in their field, all the vineyards have low yields and are hand pruned and picked. Fruit is carefully selected for picking in stages, with pickers carefully choosing rows, part rows and even vines by vine to ensure optimum harvest time for all fruit. It was the Songlines team respect for these vignerons and their sites that led them to believe that McLaren Vale Shiraz can rival any in the world.
www.songlinesestates.com
Songlines Estate wines are distributed in Australia by Scotchmans Road.
Email: info@scotchmans.com.au Phone: 03 5251 3176
Media Reviews
Paul Ippolito on paulippolito.com.au
95/100 - This is a superb complex hand crafted Shiraz...
John Lewis, The Newcastle Herald
5 / 5 - To my taste, the 2005 Songlines is clearly a wine that pursues excellence.
Jim McMahon, Food Service News
I expect in quick time these wines will become iconic.
Steven Spurrier, Decanter Magazine
Dense colour, very firm, spicy nose, cassis and black fruits, a marvellous intensity of 100-year-old Shiraz fruit, with none of the heaviness of some Australian Icon wines, a superb wine, perhaps the Latour of the McLaren Vale.