The GIG Shiraz

The Gig Shiraz  
The idea behind The Gig Shiraz is to offer you a smoother, more approachable style of Shiraz, allowing our Reserve Shiraz the time to mature.

This easy drinking Shiraz has got a vibrant nose with jammy, black cherry aromas its really perfumed showing a hint of pepper & spice. The palate is full of rich, dark berries, black cherries and dusky oak flavours, a long finish with a hint of liquorice.

It's winter, so why not match this Shiraz with Osso Bucco or (for the less adventurous, like myself) a butterflied leg of lamb, the premarinated Amelia Park was sensational last night!

We matched this with a mushroom risotto and that worked really well too. Have a look at our Food & Wine page for the recipie.

Awards:
Silver Medal: Swan Valley Show 2010
Ray Jordan: 88/100

"Great value wine here. Strong notes of ground coffee & dark chocolate infused with sweet plum, leafy red berry on the nose. The palate is surprisingly firm with some assertive tannins. The dry dusty finish suits a whole raft of Italian-style food." 88/100 Ray Jordan: The West Australian

Cellar: 4 years

Why call a wine The GIG?
13 years ago when we bought Upper Reach we were amazed to find that Captain Stirling camped opposite, on his first exploration of the Swan River.
On reading Stirling's diary & accounts from the time, it was clear that the Government in England, decided to establish a settlement in Western Australia, pretty much solely on the basis of Stirling's observations from that expedition!

We've wanted to celebrate the contribution that the soil here at Upper Reach made to the settlement of WA, and of course the soil is fundamental to our wines, so making a pair of approachable, easy drinking wines called The Gig, after the small sailing dingy that Stirling used -seemed appropriate.

"On a high bank we pitched our tent; the richness of the soil...the shrubs, the majesty of the surrounding trees, the abrupt banks of the river...the view of the blue mountains, from which we were not far distant, made the scenery around this spot as beautiful as anything of this kind I had ever witnessed." Stirling 1829

 Bottled: 18 May 2010

Food Match: Osso Bucco or butterflied leg of Lamb