As a cornerstone of our range of wines for more than three decades, we take pride in the quality and style of our standard label Fairview Shiraz. We feel that the wine offers excellent value and our winemaking team works hard to ensure that this benchmark bottling is consistent. The 2008 vintage is just about to be released in the tasting room and we have had very positive feedback from our guests at our recent Facebook group tasting at the farm.
Each year we enter a small number of international wine competitions and our winemaker, Anthony de Jager, strongly suggested that this wine be entered. This was following his assessment of the wines of the 2008 vintage late in 2009. His judgement proved to be accurate, and our Shiraz was awarded a gold medal at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, which was this year held in Sicily.
“The 2008 vintage will be remembered for unseasonable rain and unpredictable weather making the vintage difficult for most producers. Fortunately, most of our vineyards are in drier areas which lessened the impact of the rain and lengthened the ripening season. This proved ideal for flavour development. The selection process, from vineyard to final product, was particularly important with this vintage. Our initial concerns about the vintage have proved to be unnecessary and the wines have surprised us all. I think that this may well be one of our best Shiraz vintages yet.” Anthony de Jager
The 2008 vintage has also seen us move back to cork closures. We have used the aluminium stelvin style closures on this wine for the past few years but have decided to make the switch back. You can read more about this in an earlier post on our blog.
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