Saltram Mamre Brook Shiraz 2012
$2699each
$323DOZEN
WinerySaltram
Fruit Shiraz
Regions Barossa + Eden
  South Australia
Each $26.99
$323.00
Currently out of stock
Some of Australia's most influential winemakers have passed through the Saltram cellar door during the estate's 150 years. Three generations of Salters made wine until 1937, the Dolans of Pepperjack fame took over the reins in the 1950s, producing many of Saltram's most memorable vintages. Mamre Brook is the original Salter family homestead, built in 1844 near the village of Angaston. Shiraz is sourced from mature Barossa vineyards and fashioned into the enduring Mamre Brook style of penetrating brambleberry flavours over fragrant vanilla oak.
Vines on the Saltram property are only sparingly irrigated, encouraging deeper self sustaining root systems, producing smaller berries with concentrated flavours, intense colour and higher tannins. This is particularly the case with some of the older vines planted to deeper soil types toward the bottom of hills and along the river flats. Fruit is crushed and de-stemmed before vinification on skins, developing intense colour and extracting soft tannins in a variety of different fermenters. Individual parcels are kept separate throughout the winemaking and assembled just prior to bottling. Mamre Brook is matured eighteen months in a combination of new and seasoned French and American oak barrels. Alcohol 15.0%
TASTING NOTES
Dark red in colour with soft purple hues. Savoury black olive, smoked oyster and soy aromas are given additional complexity by dark notes of blackberry and dark cherry aromas, complexed liquorice and spice. The palate is richly textured with fine chalky tannins, the oak is elegant with spice and subtle vanilla stick aromas. Flavours of fresh plums, chocolate and spicy clove before a savoury old world finish, piquant plum and fragrant vanilla spice.
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About Saltram Winery
In 1844 a recently arrived immigrant from England named William Salter was one of the first people to purchase land in the newly opened land survey known as the Barossa Valley
He built a stone house for his family naming it Mamre Brook, after Abrahams spiritual home in the book of Genesis. Mamre Brook House still stands today as the spiritual home of Saltram. William Salter and Sons first planted grapes here in 1859, and in 1862 produced 8000 litres of a wine appropriately named No.1 Shiraz. In the history of Saltram there have only been eight senior winemakers, two families dominate the list, Salter and Dolan. Three generations of Salters made wine until 1937, and the Dolan's have played a part at Saltram from the 1950s through until today. Saltram»