Jamsheed Seville Syrah
$5399each
$647DOZEN
WineryJamsheed
Fruit Shiraz
Regions Healesville
  Victoria
Each $53.99
$647.00
Currently out of stock
An artisanal, single vineyard effort of 250 cases production by small batch winemaker Gary Mills, ex of Margaret River's Amberley Estate and California's Ridge Vineyard. Mills will pick five or six sites per vintage and retain the best for his Jamsheed single vineyard series. Yarra Valley Syrahs are a favourite of Mills for their superb perfume and large chalky, ageable tannins. Purity, intensity and texture define Jamsheeds approach to Syrah, a treat for enthusiasts of the pastoral genre, exhibiting spiced musk fruit flavours and evocative earth characters.
Jamsheed was a Persian king whose fondness for fresh grapes lead him to store them in jars over winter where they would inevitably ferment and turn into wine. The choicest parcels of Shiraz are selected from a vineyard in the foothills of the cool southern vales of Yarra Valley. Two thirds of the pick are vinified as whole bunches to indigenous yeasts in traditional open fermenters. No acid, enzymes or additives other than a small amount of sulphur dioxide are included. After forty days, the wine is pressed to a selection of one and two years old, larger French oak barrels, resting on sedimentery yeast lees for a term of maturation before bottling, unfilltered and unfined.
TASTING NOTES
Dark ruby purple colour. Well perfumed with peppery plums, violets, liquorice and bramble fruits. A coffee/ black/ raspberry flavoured wine with complex spice, luscious stalkiness, raspberry acid, crisp tannins and sweet graphite from the whole bunch ferments. Charming, complex and very cool climate Syrah in style, pair Jamsheed off with and meaty Asian bites, braised game and grills.
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About Jamsheed Wines
Ancient writings tell an endearing tale of about a King of Persia named Jamsheed
An ancient Persian king, Jamsheed was said to be able to see his kingdom in a cup of wine, and whose fondness for fresh grapes lead him to store them in jars over winter where they would inevitably spontaneously ferment and be set aside as poison. One of King Jamsheed’s harem, despairing of frequent migraines, chooses to commit suicide by drinking from a poisoned jar. She wakes to find herself miraculously cured, informs her king who is most pleased and sets about making more jars of this splendid poison. "Saqi, bring me wine and nothing else; Bring the wine that makes men free. A wind is stirring in the sky, you said. Until it comes, my love, pour wine for me!" Jamsheed»