{"product_id":"0001-7318","title":"Torbreck The Laird 2021 [in bond ex vat] (3x75cl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan color=\"grey\"\u003eShiraz \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan color=\"grey\"\u003e3x75cl * \u003c\/span\u003eVegan * \u003cspan color=\"grey\"\u003e15.5% ABV * Barossa Valley, Australia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan color=\"grey\"\u003e\"The Laird is a primordial leviathan in 2021 with immense ripeness, power and musculature.\" \u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Jukes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\"\u003eTorbreck was founded in 1994 with a commitment to preserving some of the oldest vines on the planet in the dry-grown vineyards that surround the Barossa Valley. Planted in the 1840s, the vines still thrive and bear fruit with wonderful concentration. They are honoured through the production of fine wines with richness, structure and length with the ability to age gracefully. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced from the grapes of a south facing vineyard, nestled in the ridge between Seppeltsfield and Marananga and planted in 1958, demonstrates its unique soil structure, micro-climate and distinctive clone resulting in a wine of extraordinary power and restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeticulously hand-tended, the five-acre vineyard, planted in 1958, yields low quantities of small, concentrated berries, resulting in a powerful and luxurious wine, with a dense, complex and alluring palate that can be cellared for decades in one’s collection of the finest wines of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2021 summer growing season was mild, with even and cool daily temperatures throughout. Enhanced by good rains provided during the winter and spring of 2020, our vineyards grew wonderful canopies and developed well-formed grape bunches. As a result of this long flavour development cycle in the vineyard, 2021’s signature is wines of high aromatic lift with densely coloured tints and exceptional balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep Aubergine with an opaque core. Luxurious and alluring black and blue fruits such as satsuma plum, blackberry, black cherry and cassis fill the bouquet, complimented by savoury notes of olive brine, tar, bay leaf, vanilla pod and black tea. The wine has wonderful complexity and charm that excites the senses. Alluring spices such as cinnamon and liquorice meld further into the complexing amalgam of flavours. The palate possesses great fruit depth and a degree of elegance, displaying wonderful harmony and posture with firm tight tannins holding the fruit and the structure together, with the typicity of ironstone minerality that is evident from Marananga’s western ridge, showing a ferrous like element that complements the palate. Not for the faint hearted, it’s a wine that needs time to offer its best. A wine that will live for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnjoy from 2026 and cellar to 2060+. Serve at 16C\/60F with prime cuts, roast BBQ Pork or vintage cheddar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Laird is a primordial leviathan in 2021 with immense ripeness, power and musculature. It is also amazingly showy and imposing, and it rushes, before you have a chance to be prepared, whereupon it assaults every inch of your olfactory circuit. Clouds of haze, comets and shooting stars fizz and arc across your taste buds and tectonic plates of flavour collide. The fruit density and sweetness are part seismic and part absurd, and while it is almost too big for my tastes, there are legions of fans who will go gaga for this wine.\" \u003cstrong\u003e19.5+\/20, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Jukes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The 2021 The Laird is from the Laird vineyard, planted in 1958. This is dark, dense and brooding in its styling, showcasing a depth that the Forebear expresses differently. The latter vineyard (the Hillside vineyard) is almost a hundred years older than the Laird, and I find this to be a curious and interesting fact that bears little on the quality of the wine but heavily impacts\/defines the character. The first time the fruit was sourced was in 2004, but it was 2005 that the first Laird was produced; the vineyard was finally purchased in full by Torbreck in 2014. The vineyard is split in its soil types, with black and red clay east to west, and the two sections are picked at different times, as the fruit ripens differently. So, to the wine. Aromatically the wine leads with cocoa and cigar, armchair leather and old books. The palate follows this same smoking-room character and veritably stains the palate in flavor and length. This is a wine of enormous impact, one that lingers and stays in the mouth for ages after the wine has gone. The wine is moody and late-night in its vibe. 15.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork. Drink 2026-2056.\" \u003cstrong\u003e98\/100, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note prices are in-bond and exclude VAT and Duty, which are payable when the wines are withdrawn from in-bond storage.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58163580010870,"sku":"0001-7318","price":1230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0437\/0215\/7464\/files\/TheLaird.png?v=1782570562","url":"https:\/\/www.tauruswines.co.uk\/products\/0001-7318","provider":"Taurus Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}