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Mitolo Icon ‘Marsican’ Shiraz 2019

$1,275.56 $1,342.69
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Critic reviews

James Halliday – A big, heavy bottle for an impactful wine. Very dense. A morass of dark fruits, molten and almost llicorella of pungency, oozes across a landscape saturated with lavender, five-spice, licorice strap and mace. The oak, positioned well. The fruit, capable of handling almost anything thrown at it. Long and forceful. Southern Rhône of feel, without the tannic mettle. This has some way to go. - Ned Goodwin

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Robert Parker/Wine Advocate – The 2019 Marsican Shiraz is concentrated and intense. Brilliant fruit depth reveals a wide splay of raspberry freshness on the mid-palate through finish, while the tannins wrap around the mouth and induce chew and smack. This is a really pleasurable, brilliant wine. It is ripe and will appeal hugely to those who are attracted to plush tannins and sweet fruit. It is hefty without being overweight. Cool. 14.8% alcohol, sealed under natural cork and wax. - Erin Larkin

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About this Wine

97 POINTS - The Vintage Journal, Andrew Caillard
"Deep crimson. Intense blackberry, dark cherry, dark chocolate aromas with vanilla, marzipan notes. Well- concentrated blackberry dark chocolate marzipan flavours fine chocolaty textures, superb mid-palate volume and attractive minerally fresh acidity. Finishes firm with bittersweet/liquorice notes. Very good density and torque with alcohol in balance and should last the distance."

96 POINTS - Vinous, Angus Hughson
"The big, brooding 2019 Marsican Shiraz delivers on every level, starting with fabulous fruit concertation and focus. Liquorice bullet, red wine reduction and roasted meat aromas rise up with lavish oak in solid support. Youthful and expressive, it then delivers waves of bold flavour with a swathe of well-ripened tannins supporting a finish of extraordinary length. This young bronco will deliver plenty in time but needs at least five years to hit its straps.
ANGUS HUGHSON, VINOUS, FEBRUARY 2023"

93 POINTS - The Real Review, Aaron Brasher
"Inky, dark red and opaque in the glass. Heady aromas of dried herbs, cedar, underbrush, plum, mulberry and toasty, nutty oak. Full bodied, dark and powerfully flavoured. Plum, prune, earth and sweet spice flavours dominate the palate. Tannins and acidity are structured and provide plenty of shape."

93 POINTS - Wine Spectator
"Impressive, with warm baking spices that mingle with savoury black olive, touches of dark chocolate-covered espresso bean, intensely juicy cherry flavours and notes of raspberry puree. Shows terrific intensity and focus, with dense but wonderfully polished tannins. Drink now through 2034. 230 cases, 100 cases imported."

STORY
Frank Mitolo’s father, Bruno, was born to an Italian viticulturist. He arrived in Australia aged 14, with farming in his blood, to work alongside his brothers. With him, he brought the ethos of his homeland, the Abruzzo region – forte e gentile or strong and gentle. Bruno forged a new life in Australia that laid the foundation for his success. Marsican is named after the rare Marsican bear, native to the Abruzzo region. The same bear can be seen in the night sky over Italy forming the Ursa Major, a constellation that has been used as a navigational reference point for millennia. Marsican is a tribute to Bruno’s heritage, and his enduring influence over the family.

TASTING NOTE
Deep crimson to dark red in colour. Immediately rich yet elegant bouquet, deep dark plum and baked cherries. Nutmeg, chocolate and coffee hints build with time. Layered and complex, texture beginning silky smooth and highly polished. Tannin intensity climbs to provide assertive and very fine tannins, offering perfect support to carry blackberry, satsuma and dark plum, and rich cherry through the very long palate. Subtle hints of dried fig and cocoa bean add interest to the dry spice notes from the nose. Succulent, driven acidity increases intensity and lifts fruit vibrancy throughout the palate, marrying with the tannins to define a firmly structured finish, assuring its ageability and prowess.

WINEMAKING
Made by individually selecting the best barrels from our finest parcels of Shiraz, the 2019 Marsican was selected from the Home Block and Lot 11 Vineyards. Destemmed and crushed, fermented in 2 tonne open top fermenters with twice daily pump overs. Temperatures were kept cool, between 20 and 24˚C, to ensure the elegance and purity of the fruit was retained, while 10 days on skins developed an intensely woven tannin structure to set the wine up for ageing. Matured in 100% New French Oak Hogs Head barrels for 18 months with natural malolactic fermentation occurring during this time. The final blend was clarified by racking only and bottled without fining or filtration.

VINEYARD
Lopresti Home Block and Lot 11 Vineyard – Flour Mill Road, Whites Valley

Less than 2 kilometres from the coastal town of Aldinga and only 4 kilometres from the Gulf St Vincent. The Home Block, at 40+ years of vine age and the Lot 11 Vineyard, now fully mature and producing wines of outstanding quality and impressive power, are blessed with a mix of sought after alluvial grey sandy and Black Biscay clay soils, sitting over ancient Ngaltinga formation. These highly reputed soils take up winter rains and maintain soil moisture through spring, supporting balanced growth to set the vine up for summer and into harvest. Sea breezes mediate day time heat, while the cracking clays reduce vine vigour during the critical ripening period to direct the vine’s energy into creating fruit with concentrated flavours and highly finessed yet intense structural tannin.

Type Red Wine
Varietal(s) Shiraz
Country Australia
Region McLaren Vale
Brand Mitolo
Vintage 2019

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Mitolo Icon ‘Marsican’ Shiraz 2019

$223.78

97 POINTS - The Vintage Journal, Andrew Caillard
"Deep crimson. Intense blackberry, dark cherry, dark chocolate aromas with vanilla, marzipan notes. Well- concentrated blackberry dark chocolate marzipan flavours fine chocolaty textures, superb mid-palate volume and attractive minerally fresh acidity. Finishes firm with bittersweet/liquorice notes. Very good density and torque with alcohol in balance and should last the distance."

96 POINTS - Vinous, Angus Hughson
"The big, brooding 2019 Marsican Shiraz delivers on every level, starting with fabulous fruit concertation and focus. Liquorice bullet, red wine reduction and roasted meat aromas rise up with lavish oak in solid support. Youthful and expressive, it then delivers waves of bold flavour with a swathe of well-ripened tannins supporting a finish of extraordinary length. This young bronco will deliver plenty in time but needs at least five years to hit its straps.
ANGUS HUGHSON, VINOUS, FEBRUARY 2023"

93 POINTS - The Real Review, Aaron Brasher
"Inky, dark red and opaque in the glass. Heady aromas of dried herbs, cedar, underbrush, plum, mulberry and toasty, nutty oak. Full bodied, dark and powerfully flavoured. Plum, prune, earth and sweet spice flavours dominate the palate. Tannins and acidity are structured and provide plenty of shape."

93 POINTS - Wine Spectator
"Impressive, with warm baking spices that mingle with savoury black olive, touches of dark chocolate-covered espresso bean, intensely juicy cherry flavours and notes of raspberry puree. Shows terrific intensity and focus, with dense but wonderfully polished tannins. Drink now through 2034. 230 cases, 100 cases imported."

STORY
Frank Mitolo’s father, Bruno, was born to an Italian viticulturist. He arrived in Australia aged 14, with farming in his blood, to work alongside his brothers. With him, he brought the ethos of his homeland, the Abruzzo region – forte e gentile or strong and gentle. Bruno forged a new life in Australia that laid the foundation for his success. Marsican is named after the rare Marsican bear, native to the Abruzzo region. The same bear can be seen in the night sky over Italy forming the Ursa Major, a constellation that has been used as a navigational reference point for millennia. Marsican is a tribute to Bruno’s heritage, and his enduring influence over the family.

TASTING NOTE
Deep crimson to dark red in colour. Immediately rich yet elegant bouquet, deep dark plum and baked cherries. Nutmeg, chocolate and coffee hints build with time. Layered and complex, texture beginning silky smooth and highly polished. Tannin intensity climbs to provide assertive and very fine tannins, offering perfect support to carry blackberry, satsuma and dark plum, and rich cherry through the very long palate. Subtle hints of dried fig and cocoa bean add interest to the dry spice notes from the nose. Succulent, driven acidity increases intensity and lifts fruit vibrancy throughout the palate, marrying with the tannins to define a firmly structured finish, assuring its ageability and prowess.

WINEMAKING
Made by individually selecting the best barrels from our finest parcels of Shiraz, the 2019 Marsican was selected from the Home Block and Lot 11 Vineyards. Destemmed and crushed, fermented in 2 tonne open top fermenters with twice daily pump overs. Temperatures were kept cool, between 20 and 24˚C, to ensure the elegance and purity of the fruit was retained, while 10 days on skins developed an intensely woven tannin structure to set the wine up for ageing. Matured in 100% New French Oak Hogs Head barrels for 18 months with natural malolactic fermentation occurring during this time. The final blend was clarified by racking only and bottled without fining or filtration.

VINEYARD
Lopresti Home Block and Lot 11 Vineyard – Flour Mill Road, Whites Valley

Less than 2 kilometres from the coastal town of Aldinga and only 4 kilometres from the Gulf St Vincent. The Home Block, at 40+ years of vine age and the Lot 11 Vineyard, now fully mature and producing wines of outstanding quality and impressive power, are blessed with a mix of sought after alluvial grey sandy and Black Biscay clay soils, sitting over ancient Ngaltinga formation. These highly reputed soils take up winter rains and maintain soil moisture through spring, supporting balanced growth to set the vine up for summer and into harvest. Sea breezes mediate day time heat, while the cracking clays reduce vine vigour during the critical ripening period to direct the vine’s energy into creating fruit with concentrated flavours and highly finessed yet intense structural tannin.

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