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Chaffey Bros Wine Co. made their mark at the 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards with their 2021 ‘Evangeline’ Eden Valley Syrah Shiraz, emerging as one of eight Australian wines to secure a Best in Show award.
The award-winning wine is the brainchild of two brothers-in-law, Daniel Chaffey Hartwig and Theo Engela, whose vineyards are located in the serene Barossa and Eden Valleys of South Australia.
Being the world’s largest and most influential wine competition, the DWWA judges were impressed by the distinctive qualities of ‘Evangeline’.
“This is only the second Eden Valley shiraz to reach our Best in Show selection, and its bold, captivating character underscores how well this slightly higher-altitude region complements South Australia’s favourite red variety,” the judges said.
‘Evangeline’ is described by the Chaffey Bros as an elegant cooler climate expression of Shiraz distinct from its Barossa Valley brethren with its lifted perfume and delicate structure.
Cool blue fruits are intertwined with silky tannins and subtle oak influence from 18 months of maturation in fine grain French oak puncheons and hogshead barrels.
Although this isn’t their first time being awarded for their wines at an international scale, it’s definitely their first receiving gold for a Shiraz at the prestigious DWWA, or what some wine lovers would regard as the Olympics of wine.
Chaffey Bros co-founder, Daniel Chaffey Hartwig, is thrilled with the international accolade and global recognition of ‘Syrah’ as an exciting new style of Australian Shiraz.
“We are absolutely delighted to have our Syrah ‘Evangeline’ recognised as a Top 50 wine for 2024 at the Decanter World Wine Awards, representing only 0.28% of wines tasted,” Daniel Hartwig said.
“It’s an exciting time for Australian red wine, with the Syrah style signaling something different from Australia which is being recognized both at home and now on a world stage.
“The intention of this wine was to highlight the lifted perfumes and blue fruits of Eden Valley Shiraz.”
Chaffey Bros’ ‘Evangeline’ Eden Valley Syrah now sits in the world’s Top 50 wines for 2024, after DWWA’s international judging panel of 250 industry-leading professionals from 33 countries tasted over 18,000 wines from across the globe.
“Our winemaking philosophy is centred on our obsession with texture and aromatics, and with identifying distinctive vineyards from which to craft site-specific expressions of place. The cooler Eden Valley subregion is home to nine of our single vineyard wines,” Daniel Hartwig said.
“It’s great to see a movement within the Australian wine industry celebrating lighter and elegant expressions of Shiraz.”
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