Wine Max's Garden Heathcote Shiraz 2007
Tasting Notes
Wine of deep purple color with black shade.
Light fruity wine with good tannins.
Wine with aromas of red and black berries, raspberries, currants, cherries and chocolate. Notes of black pepper, scorched earth and smoke added to the complexity of the blame.
Wine is well served with meat dishes.
Interesting Facts
Wine Maksiz Garden Hiskout Shiraz is created from the best grapes grown in the valley Hiskout (Victoria), the wine its characteristic density and concentration, which appear due to the cold climate Hiskouta. Ageing potential of this wine for more than 10 years.
Two Hands ("Two Hands") - it's the owners Tvelftri Michael (Michael Twelftree) and Richard Mintz (Richard Mintz). Their way is not too typical for most winemakers. Michael's father was engaged in construction, and Michael himself to discover the charm and complexity of the wine world in only 26 years old - the age at which the offspring of the famous wine names have long been working in the company of their parents. He did not think twice and almost immediately, in 1998, opened his own company to export products of several Australian wineries. Richard Mintz became interested in wine theme, when he ran one of the leading companies in Australia cooperage. In 1999, the two friends had the idea of a joint project Two Hands. Two Hands philosophy expressed simply - "Quality without compromise". Tablet with this inscription can be found in the laboratory Two Hands, and advertising their wines.
Cool winters, hot summers and a variety of soils provide ideal conditions for Australian wine. Here there are the oldest Shiraz vines in the New World, brought here many years ago the first colonists. Although phylloxera attacked and Australia, Barossa before she got. Timely preventive measures and strict control over the spread of phylloxera allows many old vines Barossa still stand on their own roots. The composition of soil includes a lot of minerals that are good for the structure and complexity of the wine.