2021 Omertà Shiraz – NEW RELEASE

Awards

Gold Medal – 5 Stars – 98pts Sam Kim, Wine Orbit 2025 – Gracefully opulent and complex, the enticing bouquet shows dark fruit richness, toasted spice, vanilla, cedar, and dark chocolate aromas. The concentrated palate exhibits outstanding depth and persistence, wonderfully complemented by a plush texture and layers of grainy tannins. This makes it structured and robust, while remaining gorgeously balanced with an impressively long, sumptuous finish. At its best: now to 2041.

Gold Medal – 5 Stars – 98pts Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot 2025 – A near-perfect McLaren Vale 2021 vintage, capturing extraordinary shiraz fruit intensity. Open fermented, cold-soaked, slow cool fermentation; multiple yeast strains for complexity. Aged 48 months in tight-grained French oak, 70% new. Dark, plummy, earthy, licorice-like notes with touches of coffee, finely integrated tannins, and understated oak. Elegance, smooth subtlety, superb now with long-term potential.

Name

The Omertà is a Mafia code of silence and a refusal to give evidence. We apply the same code of silence to the fruit parcel that makes this wine.

Vineyard

What we will tell you is its very, very good, highly sought after and 100% McLaren Vale. The 2021 vintage delivered a respectable crop size and exemplary quality in Shiraz blocks. With near perfect ripening conditions with mild temperatures and cool nights the vines thrived.

Winery
In the winery the Omertà Shiraz fruit is treated with utmost respect, ensuring quality from start to finish. In open ferments the fruit has a 4-day cold soak prior to slow, cool (18 degree) fermentation for gentle extraction of colour flavour, and tannin into the wine.

Batches were kept separate where 3 different yeasts strains were used including one wild yeast batch to create complexity and texture. Following fermentation, the wine was then matured in the finest predominately new, 48 months seasoned, very tight grain French Hogsheads barrels for 40 months.

Winemaker:
Campbell Greer

Vintage:
2021

Variety:
Shiraz 100%

Maturation:
40 Months in French Oak Hogsheads, 100% new oak.

Region:
McLaren Vale 100%

Alcohol:
15.0%

Colour: Deep intense dark, almost black.

Nose: The underlying Blackberry fruit is secondary here, where swaths of savory tell the story. Sweet tabaco, leather, black olive, fresh truffle and liquorice take centre stage pulling you back in for more.

Palate: A symphony of impeccable fruit meeting unmatched French oak set the foundation. Combined with patience this has allowed this wine to establish a stunning flow from fruit to oak. A harmony rarely seen in Australian wine due to the extended four-year oak time gives you the pleasure of drinking what seems like an 8-year wine. Your undivided attention is needed here as the complexity deepens with each sip. We have done our bit, now you have to do yours. GET IT IN THE DECANTER, MINIMUM 2 HOURS!

Potential: 10+ years.