A medium bodied table wine exhibiting strong spicy herbaceousness and capsicum aromas. The wine has plenty of body and soft round tannins with good length of blueberry and blackberry fruit flavours. A wine with great balance and texture.
A wine ideally suited to beef, spicy meals, kangaroo, veal and roast duck.
Grape Variety: Shiraz
Growing Area: Pokolbin, Hunter Valley
Method Of Harvest: Machine
Baume At Harvest: 13.1º
Fermentation: 7 days on skin at at 19ºC to 23ºC.
Maturation: 18 months 4 year old barriques.
Alcohol: 13.3%
Acid: 5.40 g/L
pH: 3.6
The varietals of Drayton's "Oakey Creek" are:
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
SHIRAZ
CHARDONNAY
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