Black Blood II

Name: Black Blood II
Brand: Hugh Hamilton Wines
SKU: BB2-22
Price: 80.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

Church Vineyard Shiraz 2022

Three truly unique Shiraz wines where everything has been kept as consistent as possible, picking dates, winemaking approach, oak regime and maturation. The only thing that is different is the terroir each wine comes from.

Church Vineyard, so named for the old Bethany Church that it surrounds on three sides, was once the bed of an ancient river. Whatever the flows in the past may have been, this river now trickles quietly along the base of the block. You can taste its mark in the generosity of fruit that typifies this wine.

Vegan friendly

🏆 95 Points - Halliday Wine Companion - Marcus Ellis

🏆 92 Points - Vinous - Angus Hughson

Very deep, bright, red-purple colour; very ripe blackberry fruits backed with stylish, balanced oak and hints of aniseed and eucalyptus. Full bodied, powerful, dense and rich, with great depth of flavour and volume turned up to 10. Ample soft, fine tannins. Long carry. A very smart wine of a gutsy style.

“The three Black Blood Shiraz wines are the most convincing trio linking vineyard soils and the wine in the glass” - James Halliday

Winemaker's Notes

There’s never enough wine from this block; the phenomenally plush mid palate is useful in almost any Shiraz blend. For me this fruit is truly at the heart of the Vale – both geographically and deliciously.

Bouquet & Palate

A sweet lift of boudoir perfume and red leather chesterfield. Sweet tobacco pouch – cigar boxed, gift wrapped in iodine and iron. Aniline dyed and violet. It has the blues too; blueberries, damsons, and currants. Milk chocolate right through the palate. Fulsome rose notes and red earth.