Heartland Spice Trader Langhorne Creek red wine vegan dry Australia (3 x 0.75l)

• STORY: 2012 was the first vintage of "Spice Trader" from Ben Glaetzer's Heartland Winery. The wine owes its name to the adventurous spice traders of yesteryear. Just like them, Heartland's winemakers invest all their time in finding the perfect spices and flavors.

• AGEING: French and American oak barrels (used) for 12 months

• AROMA: Intense primary fruit: blueberries, blackberries and currants.

• RATING: The strong fruit aromas are wonderfully complemented by exotic spice notes. Complex and full of character with a nice cool elegance.

• SERVING RECOMMENDATION: with grilled meat and strong cheese

2012 was the first vintage of "Spice Trader" from Ben Glaetzer's Heartland Winery. The wine owes its name to the adventurous spice traders of yesteryear. Just like them, Heartland's winemakers invest all their time in finding the perfect spices and flavors. Be it the right location for the selected vines, the work in the vineyard or the work in the cellar: everything is done here with great care to ultimately find a balanced bouquet of berry aromas and spices in the "Spice Trader". Heartland Wines is a joint venture of seven young people who got together in 2001 to turn their love of fine wine into a joint venture. The name of their newly founded winery already expresses how close the project is to them: “Heartland”. As Chief Winemaker at the head of the dedicated team is none other than Ben Glaetzer, scion of the famous Glaetzer family of winemakers. The "wine-o-holic", bursting with self-confidence and determination, not only managed to win over the national trade press, but also to attract the attention of wine pope Robert M. Parker. As Parker describes it, "Ben Glaetzer admirably combines the tremendous fruit and vigor of old vines with a surprising level of elegance and complexity." Langhorne Creek is Australia's oldest cool climate region and is much cooler than neighboring McLaren Vale and Barossa regions for one very simple reason: it is located in an old floodplain on the northern shore of Lake Alexandrina. As such it is entirely flat and, unlike the regions on the other side of the Mount Lofty range, is at the mercy of the prevailing winds.