10 Great Southern wines to try

Source: www.decanter.com --- Tuesday, September 01, 2015
Australia’s largest wine region is finally being appreciated for its diversity of varieties, climates and soils, as well as its focus on single-vineyard wines. Sarah Ahmed picks the 10 top wines to try. Great Southern’s ‘very promising potential’ was orginally spotted by Dr Harold Olmo, visiting professor of viticulture from The University of California, in 1955.Very sparsely populated in the 1950s, the focus was still on farming and forestry and the first vineyard was not planted until 1965; its first commercial wine, made by Plantagenet, emerged in 1975. See also: Regional profile: Great Southern However, 60 years after Olmo highlighted Great Southern’s suitability for ‘high-quality light table wines’, Western Australia’s coolest wine region is edging into the limelight. With a strong focus on single-vineyard wines, producers are taking a terrior-driven approach, often looking beyond their own vineyards and sub-regions to secure the best grapes from the best sites for their single-vineyard ranges. Here Sarah Ahmed lists her top 10 Great Southern wines to get the taste of the region: La Violetta, Up Shiraz, Mount Barker 2013 August 28, 2015 Whole bunch ferment brings black pepper and floral lift to this single-vineyard Shiraz’s fresh ... Points 91 Larry Cherubino, Ad Hoc Cruel Mistress Pinot Noir 2013 August 28, 2015 Complex with freshly dug beetroot and forest floor nuances to its supple milk chocolate-laced... Points 91 La Vio ...

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