Alcohol: 14%
Colour: Dark red with vibrant hue
Nose: Jammy plum, black fruit and cloves
Palate: Full supple palate with a soft finish with loads of fruit and a hint of anise and spices complementing the fruit on the palate.
HISTORY
This is our seventh release of Tantalus Red, a blend of Shiraz and Cabernet, each vintage better than the last. Elderton released Tantalus to provide an easy drinking style of premium red at an every day drinking price. Tantalus was a figure from Greek Mythology who was punished for offending the Gods by being kept perpetually thirsty and hungry but tantalised by water and fruit he could see but not quite reach!
VITICULTURE
Both the Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon, which come from selected vineyard sites around South Australia, are machine
harvested to allow quick delivery to the winery to ensure that fresh fruit characters are displayed in the finished wine.
Supplementary irrigation and strict canopy management enable the fruit to reach a baumé of 13.5 to 14°, offering rich
complex flavours.
WINEMAKING
The fruit is crushed and destemmed before controlled fermentation takes place in overhead potter fermenting vessels.
Fermentation takes six days and is temperature controlled to allow full flavour and colour extraction. The wine only spends
about six months in old American oak barrels to give it some vanilla and coconut characters, but still remains largely fruit
driven.
