Rolf Binder Barossa Valley Bulls Blood Shiraz Mataro 750mL
Rolf Binder Barossa Valley Bulls Blood Shiraz Mataro is 14.1% ABV. The Hungarian ‘Bikaver’ wine translates to ‘Bulls Blood’ and dates back to the 1500s when the Hungarians were fighting the Turks. It was a wine forstrengthinbattle! ThefirstVeritas‘BullsBlood’wasproducedin 1967 by R. H. Binder and the label remains relatively unchanged. Now an Australian ‘cult’ wine and one that collectors enjoy. The blend is 70% Shiraz with 30% Mataro from vines planted in the 1880s on the Binder Chri-Ro vineyard. Vines are hand-pruned and hand-picked. open fermented with pump overs twice daily, resulting in a 7 day fermentation process. At the end of fermentation on skins the juice is drained off. The remaining skins still contain a large amount of fermenting juice and due to the contact with the ripe skins contain wonderful, rich flavours. The skins are gently pressed then the wine is fermented to dryness, racked and placed in American and French oak puncheons, comprising 80% new oak.
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About Rolf Binder:
Rolf Binder and sister Christa Deans, produce a range of highly acclaimed Barossa premium wines using fruit from their own estate and other Barossa vineyards. Rolf focuses on red winemaking, for which he has received international accolades, and Christa is recognised as one of the region’s finest white winemakers. American wine critic, Robert Parker Junior describes Rolf Binder as “one of my favourite wineries (whose) offerings are never excessively oaked, possess extraordinary ripe, concentrated fruit, great individuality.”
Rolf Heinrich Binder and his wife, Franziska, arrived in Australia (from Austria and Hungary respectively) in 1950 as part of the large influx of post war immigration. As payment for the government assistance, they worked for the South Australian Railway for three years. During that time they met Elmore Schulz, a train driver and grape grower in the Barossa Valley, and namesake to Barossa Valley Estate’s E&E Shiraz. While picking grapes for Schulz in 1953, the couple met Langmeil Road winemakers, Chris Vohrer and Wilhelm Abel, a meeting that proved to set their future in the wine business. In 1954 they worked a vintage in this winery and subsequently purchased the business in 1955, renaming it ‘Veritas’, taken from the Latin quote “In Vino Veritas” – in wine, truth. The winery name was changed from Veritas to Rolf Binder in 2005 to honour Rolf Heinrich Binder who passed away in 2003. Since then, the business has grown substantially throughout Australia, with wines also now exported to 18 countries.
Price / Unit | Bottle |
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Bottle/Glass Size | 750mL |
ABV% | 14.1 |
Brand | Rolf Binder |
Varietal | Shiraz Mataro |
Country of Manufacture | Australia |
Region | South Australia |
Vintage | 2014 |
Box | No |
Condition | New |
Closure | Screw Cap |