| Entry Information |
| Ballandean Estate Wines |
| 2017 |
| 27 |
| 27#9 |
| Ballandean Estate |
| Messing About Saperavi |
| 2015 |
| Single Vineyard |
| Yes |
| Cellar Door |
|
| Judging Results |
| Gold |
| Good colour. Quite oaky. Saperavi in shiraz' clothing. |
| beautiful rip fruit with leathery spice, spicy oak, good length and complexity, big savoury style |
| Soft, plumbs, chocolate, oak creeping out of the wine and sitting on top of lovely ripe round fruit. |
| crunchy dusty tannin drive, nice length, oak a little drying |
|
| Varietal: Saperavi, GI: Granite Belt, 100% |
| Unknown, Roostock: Unknown, 100% |
| Granite |
| 820 Metres above sea level |
| 2009 |
| Dripper |
| Conventional |
|
| Wine Making Information |
| Open Fermenter 100% |
| Small Format Oak 100% |
| Cork |
| 395 |
| False |
