2020
Syrah
The Ochota Barrels tale began on a surf trip, late 2000 along the Mexican west coast in a Volkswagen campervan. A final destination after traveling some of the world’s best wine and surf regions, Taras and Amber Ochota conceived the idea to make super premium wines back home in South Australia. The concept was to concentrate on the zenith variety of Mclaren Vale (Grenache) and the Barossa Valley (Shiraz), find an exceptional old vineyard site in each region and create plush, small batch, single vineyard wines.
From a vineyard planted in 1996 on schist soils in McLaren Vale. A serious and structured Syrah with flavors of sweet berries, sweet herbs, green peppery, undergrowth characters, and anise notes with fine tannins. Organic.