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John Duval Eligo 2006, 2006

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After 29 years as a winemaker with Penfolds, one of Australia's most famous wineries, John Duval (who worked on Grange) started his own wine label in 2003.

His aim with ELIGO is to produce an elegant expression of Barossa Shiraz. A wine with restrained power, rich texture and palate length. 2006 has been recognised as an excellent vintage with favourable weather conditions and vine balance. The more subtle French oak was chosen to compliment the blackberry, blueberry fruit.

Traditional low intervention winemaking techniques were employed with ELIGO. Ample structure, texture and fruit intensity will allow great potential for improvement in the bottle, under good cellaring conditions, for at least 15 years.

Region: Barossa Valley

Varieties: 100% Shiraz ELIGO represents the best of my 2006 vintage and is sourced from some excellent Shiraz vineyards in the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley regions

Winemaking: Fermentation with submerged cap in small stainless steel fermenters. Some batches had up to 2 weeks on skins

Oak Maturation: 100% barrel matured for 20 months with 66% new fine grain French oak and the balance, 1 and 2 year old French oak hogsheads (300 litre).Some batches finished fermentation in new barrels

Technical Notes:
Alcohol 15.0%
pH 3.45
TA 6.5g/l

Tasting:

Colour: Dense red-purple
Nose: Perfumed concentration of blackberry, blueberry fruit and fragrant French oak
Palate: Rich and well structured. A layered complexity of dark fruit and smokey, savoury French oak.
Impressive texture of mouth-coating tannins that provide the framework for the richness and intensity of fruit. A powerful but restrained Barossan.

96pts, “The very best shiraz to pass through Duval’s experienced hands, this has a superb sense of depth and grace, relying on soulful, rich regional depth. Blackberry, black cherry and cassis are all nicely framed in savoury oak and gentle spice – refined and tidy. The palate makes a statement of structure and precision, deep tarry blackberry flavours build to spiced blood plum through the finish. Impressively balanced, beautifully extruded and convincing shiraz.”
Nick Stock, The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2010

95pts, “Dense but bright colour; has perfectly pitched blackberry, plum fruit and French oak on both the bouquet and medium- to full bodied palate, with a very long finish.”
James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2010

94pts, “Vivid purple. Strikingly complex aromas of blackcurrant, raspberry compote, violet, olive and Asian spices. Broad, palate-staining dark berry flavors are brightened by zesty minerals and pick up an exotic floral note with air. The mineral element gains strength with air and carries through a long, pure and sweet finish. I couldn't get this off my palate, but I didn't try very hard.”
Josh Raynolds, Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar Autumn 2009

94pts, “Impeccable structure. Sense of elegance. Finesse through the finish…” “Flavours are in the blackberry/chocolate/port/hay/cedarwood spectrum and despite its deep sense of impact it’s neither a huge wine nor an overdone wine. It’s beautiful in its style with oodles of fleshy tannin through the finish. It will age well.”
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, October 5 2009

94pts, “Densely structured yet undeveloped on release, this is fresh and ripe with potential to age long and well.”
Rob Geddes MW, “The Gold Book” Australian Wine Vintages 2010
Gold Medal - 2009 Sommelier Challenge (US)

From Cellartracker:

12/12/2009 - KHAMEN WROTE:93 Points
Top wine of John Duval subjected to a bout of infanticide due to curiosity. 1 hour decant. Viscous opaque purple in the glass with some long but very chunky legs. Nose is a little tight but there's a real potpourri of dark fruit, latex and some nicely judged oak lurking in there somewhere. Very broad and rich attack of blackberry fruit, licorice and plum preserve. Not as huge as some recent Aussie cult shiraz - actually rather elegant despite its obvious size. Well balanced despite the monster 15% alc. A little smokey oak is apparent but the treatment is exceptional and sympathetic. Finish is superb. Very persistent and complex, throwing out additional notes of cherry, black olives and minerality that were not immediately apparent through attack and mid-palate. Timed the finish at over 50 seconds and even after that it's very hard to shake it off entirely (funnily enough I get the same from a good vintage of Grange, which John Duval used to make). Continuing to develop in glass over the course of an hour and starting to settle down nicely. The wine is drinking as a 90 for me, the fabulous finish adds 2 points and the potential to evolve and develop (which is undeniable) is another 1. 93 with a tentative "+". A wine of character and really quite accessible, although time is needed for it to shed the puppy fat.
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John Duval Eligo 2006

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John Duval Eligo 2006, 2006

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After 29 years as a winemaker with Penfolds, one of Australia's most famous wineries, John Duval (who worked on Grange) started his own wine label in 2003.

His aim with ELIGO is to produce an elegant expression of Barossa Shiraz. A wine with restrained power, rich texture and palate length. 2006 has been recognised as an excellent vintage with favourable weather conditions and vine balance. The more subtle French oak was chosen to compliment the blackberry, blueberry fruit.

Traditional low intervention winemaking techniques were employed with ELIGO. Ample structure, texture and fruit intensity will allow great potential for improvement in the bottle, under good cellaring conditions, for at least 15 years.

Region: Barossa Valley

Varieties: 100% Shiraz ELIGO represents the best of my 2006 vintage and is sourced from some excellent Shiraz vineyards in the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley regions

Winemaking: Fermentation with submerged cap in small stainless steel fermenters. Some batches had up to 2 weeks on skins

Oak Maturation: 100% barrel matured for 20 months with 66% new fine grain French oak and the balance, 1 and 2 year old French oak hogsheads (300 litre).Some batches finished fermentation in new barrels

Technical Notes:
Alcohol 15.0%
pH 3.45
TA 6.5g/l

Tasting:

Colour: Dense red-purple
Nose: Perfumed concentration of blackberry, blueberry fruit and fragrant French oak
Palate: Rich and well structured. A layered complexity of dark fruit and smokey, savoury French oak.
Impressive texture of mouth-coating tannins that provide the framework for the richness and intensity of fruit. A powerful but restrained Barossan.

96pts, “The very best shiraz to pass through Duval’s experienced hands, this has a superb sense of depth and grace, relying on soulful, rich regional depth. Blackberry, black cherry and cassis are all nicely framed in savoury oak and gentle spice – refined and tidy. The palate makes a statement of structure and precision, deep tarry blackberry flavours build to spiced blood plum through the finish. Impressively balanced, beautifully extruded and convincing shiraz.”
Nick Stock, The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2010

95pts, “Dense but bright colour; has perfectly pitched blackberry, plum fruit and French oak on both the bouquet and medium- to full bodied palate, with a very long finish.”
James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2010

94pts, “Vivid purple. Strikingly complex aromas of blackcurrant, raspberry compote, violet, olive and Asian spices. Broad, palate-staining dark berry flavors are brightened by zesty minerals and pick up an exotic floral note with air. The mineral element gains strength with air and carries through a long, pure and sweet finish. I couldn't get this off my palate, but I didn't try very hard.”
Josh Raynolds, Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar Autumn 2009

94pts, “Impeccable structure. Sense of elegance. Finesse through the finish…” “Flavours are in the blackberry/chocolate/port/hay/cedarwood spectrum and despite its deep sense of impact it’s neither a huge wine nor an overdone wine. It’s beautiful in its style with oodles of fleshy tannin through the finish. It will age well.”
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, October 5 2009

94pts, “Densely structured yet undeveloped on release, this is fresh and ripe with potential to age long and well.”
Rob Geddes MW, “The Gold Book” Australian Wine Vintages 2010
Gold Medal - 2009 Sommelier Challenge (US)

From Cellartracker:

12/12/2009 - KHAMEN WROTE:93 Points
Top wine of John Duval subjected to a bout of infanticide due to curiosity. 1 hour decant. Viscous opaque purple in the glass with some long but very chunky legs. Nose is a little tight but there's a real potpourri of dark fruit, latex and some nicely judged oak lurking in there somewhere. Very broad and rich attack of blackberry fruit, licorice and plum preserve. Not as huge as some recent Aussie cult shiraz - actually rather elegant despite its obvious size. Well balanced despite the monster 15% alc. A little smokey oak is apparent but the treatment is exceptional and sympathetic. Finish is superb. Very persistent and complex, throwing out additional notes of cherry, black olives and minerality that were not immediately apparent through attack and mid-palate. Timed the finish at over 50 seconds and even after that it's very hard to shake it off entirely (funnily enough I get the same from a good vintage of Grange, which John Duval used to make). Continuing to develop in glass over the course of an hour and starting to settle down nicely. The wine is drinking as a 90 for me, the fabulous finish adds 2 points and the potential to evolve and develop (which is undeniable) is another 1. 93 with a tentative "+". A wine of character and really quite accessible, although time is needed for it to shed the puppy fat.
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Item Details

Item ID:

174639

Name:

John Duval Eligo 2006

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Quantity / Size:

1 bottles, 75cl each

Duty Status:

Duty Paid

Wine Type:

Red

Country / Region:

Australia, Victoria, McLaren Vale

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£15.00 within the UK
From SN15, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
worldwide

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