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Torzi Matthews Schist Rock Eden Valley Shiraz 2008 AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW WITH DELIVERY FROM 14TH OF MAY Rich dark and handsome. We gave last years release the Best Red Wine under $20 award in the Big Red Wine Book, and the 2008 will shake things up again. Campbell Mattinson Herald Sun Magazine May 2009 Torzi Matthews scores 5 star rating James Halliday 2009 Australian Wine Companion Estate single vineyard wine grown in the chilly surrounds of Mount McKenzie in the Eden Valley. This label represents our rendition of Eden Valley Shiraz which is the non dried portion fruit that of Frost Dodger Shiraz and is aged in ex Frost Dodger barrels. 2008 rainfall in the Eden Valley was average with a slight frost during the first week of November. Flowering was above average with good fruit load. January and February recorded the coolest in 30 years while March had its own record with temperatures reaching over 35c for 15 days. Our grapeyard overcame the extremes and produced amazing colour with super Shiraz flavourings. Wine making: Once again very minimalistic workings including 10% whole bunch open top ferment, wild yeast ferment, soft pump overs / hand plunging, basket pressed, aged for 13 months and bottled unfiltered. As you may know by now, I do get cross when people dismiss Australian wine as a slick, soulless, corporate, technological construct. Domenic Torzi is typical of the new generation of Australian wine artisans, hand-making wine from a small patch of vines, taking an extraordinary risk by planting vines in a frost pocket on the gentle slopes of Mt McKenzie in the Eden Valley because he and his partner Tracy Matthews were convinced that the naturally low yields on the poor soils here and the particular flavours were worth risking the frosts that had driven those who originally planted vines here in the early 20th century away. Their ten hectares of vines went into the ground in 1996 and Domenic, from an Italian family that settled on the Adelaide Plains in the 1950s and have been making olive oil, and wine for home consumption, for some time, was anxious to get to grips with a really special piece of land. So much is made of the Barossa and to a lesser extent Clare Valleys that the beautiful Eden Valley, its unpaved roads lined with gums, is often overlooked. Yalumba and Henschke are the king and queen. Torzi Matthews is definitely an upstart serf. Jancis Robinson