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2015 Shadowfax Minnow Red
Shadowfax
Shadowfax planted the first vines at the Werribee Vineyard in 1998, and for a long time Matt Harrop and the team have been perfecting their work with southern French varieties. The Minnow project has, excuse the pun, really started to bear fruit in recent years, yielding bright-fruited, spicy and highly distinctive blends of Mondeuse, Mataro, Grenache and Cinsault. The vines are trained on a single wire and are shoot thinned by hand each spring to maintain low, simple yields.
April, 2017
The Weekly Review
92 points
If you have kids, Shadowfax is an easy cellar door to combine with a trip to Werribee Zoo. Its food makes it a good lunch stop, too. The grapes in the Minnow are all grown in the vineyard next to the winery. It's funky and perfumed, with raspberry, spice and earth flavours, sandy tannins and a lengthy finish.
June, 2017
Gourmet Traveller WINE
A blend of Grenache, Mataro, Roussanne and Mondeuse with splashes of Cinsault, seems quite exotic, but the sum of its parts works superbly. This is a pitch-perfect bistro wine that offers medium weight, juiciness and just a touch of crunchy acidity for freshness. It shows dark cherry, cola, green herbs and peppery spice character, with the mesh of those flavours and aromas completely seductive and moreish. A light chill wouldn't go astray, but it'll also warm the cockles in the colder weather.
May, 2017
Adelaide Review
The 2015 Shadowfax Minnow seems to me quite autumnal drinking. It’s a bit of a fruit salad; a blend of red and white grape varieties – Grenache, Cinsault, Mataro, Mondeuse Noir and Roussanne – from down Werribee way in Victoria. It is one of those dangerously drinkable blends that seems to tick all the boxes.
For starters, the colour is very Pinotesque. The aromatic profile is awash with redcurrant, cranberry and red cherries with some grapefruit lift for good measure. It is fragrant and musky-edged with a light dusting of Asian spice and amaro herbs to fill things out.
At the lighter end of medium-bodied, it features plenty of space and detail on the palate which shows bright fruit and a spicy flick to its tail with a sapid acid line and gentle tannin wash. The wine finishes with a sexy Aperol spritz herbal tweak.
I challenge anyone not to have a glass of this over a dish of pasta and not come out smiling.
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