{"product_id":"passing-clouds-shiraz-serpentine-bendigo-2019-750ml","title":"Passing Clouds Serpentine Bendigo Shiraz 2019 750mL","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Serpentine Shiraz is a luxury gifted to us. Bendigo produces such high-quality shiraz, we have the good fortune to be making a wine this potent, and this indulgent. The Serpentine is a wine built on being luscious, full of heft, exuberant, and damn good drinking. The Serpentine is only made in certain quality years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAroma:\u003c\/strong\u003e This is a nose that leaps from the glass, potent sweet raspberry, thick plum juice, sits above a richness, chocolate and earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePalate:\u003c\/strong\u003e The palate is velvety, tannin holds this wine upright with concentrated fruit, lifted by almost 50 days on skins. A finesse still holds in this wine, with subtle spice leading to a finish where the length is extraordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e The fruit is 100% de-stemmed and hand sorted before being traditionally vinified in open stainless-steel fermenters, which are hand plunged twice a day. The Serpentine Shiraz is made entirely from Post Ferment Maceration. Matured in 100% neutral French oak for 17 months. A barrel selection, and minimum of 12 months bottle maturation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eViticulture:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Serpentine vineyard sits on the banks of the Loddon River 42 km north-west of the township of Bendigo. 20-year-old shiraz (PT23) vines. Soils of sandy clay loam over friable reddish clay with limestone pebbles. A warm dry climate with annual rainfall of 350mm. The vines are cane pruned with shoot and bunch thinning. Minimal irrigation and low rainfall with the sandy soils, results in a balanced canopy more reminiscent of a dry grown vineyard. Subsequently application of fungicide is rare and other intervention is minimal. The 2019 vintage was a warm and dry vintage providing powerful ripe fruit. Reminiscent of the original Serpentine Shiraz vintage, 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Passing Clouds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43049019605207,"sku":"PASSING-CLOUDS-SHIRAZ-SERPENTINE-BENDIGO-2019","price":41.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0246\/9753\/6596\/products\/tds-PassingClouds-PinotNoir-Kilmorecopy.jpg?v=1658818045","url":"https:\/\/thedrinksociety.sg\/products\/passing-clouds-shiraz-serpentine-bendigo-2019-750ml","provider":"The Drink Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}