We hope you enjoy these 2014 Sidewood Shiraz tasting notes Adelaide Hills because we had a lot of fun making them while recording episode 154 of The Adelaide Show Podcast.
Sidewood Estate is the official wine sponsor of the 2016 Adelaide Guitar Festival so it was only fitting we drank some while talking to festival producer, Sarah Bleby, and festival sweetheart and blues guru, Cal Williams Jr.
2014 Sidewood Shiraz tasting notes Adelaide Hills
The first thing that struck our palates was how dominant the fruit characters were.
Steve noted that Adelaide Hills Shiraz is typically more reserved in the fruit stakes, possibly due to the cooler clime of the Adelaide Hills.
He thinks Sidewood has introduced bottled sunshine during fermentation!
No matter how it was achieved, the results of the Sidewood Estate winemakers’ efforts is a balanced, mouth filling wine that would be just as happy being consumed on its own as it would be accompanying a stuffed eggplant.
And this applies whether you take Sarah and Cal’s approach of stuffing your eggplant with rice and spices, or Nigel’s approach of using seasoned mince.
Listen to the live wine tasting before you head out and get some 2014 Sidewood Shiraz. The tasting is just a few minutes in:
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