2017 Hemera Estate JDR Shiraz

The name JDR is a tribute to the original owner of the Hemera Estate winery; Joseph Darius Ross. The best Shiraz of the year is selected to carry his name.Each vintage, the best sections of the Hemera Estate Shiraz vineyards and a selected grower’s Barossa Valley Shiraz are identified to have the power and intensity of flavours and tannins to be worthy of the “JDR” label. Careful vineyard management and bunch selection ensure only pristine fruit makes the grade.Once the grapes have been identified to be of optimum maturation and flavour ripeness, the parcels are brought into the winery where they are gently destemmed and gently crushed into open-topped fermenters. Here they are manually pumped-over twice daily to provide soft tannin extraction. Near the conclusion of the primary fermentation the wine is drained and then the skins transferred to the air-bag press. The free-run and pressed wine are combined before being transferred into a combination of predominately new French and American oak barrels for 20 months of maturation. Meticulous barrel selection takes place before the wine is blended.