Lily's Garden

McLaren Vale Shiraz

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“South Australia’s viticultural origins began in McLaren Vale and our region’s Mediterranean climate continues to drive our region’s wine style and diverse food culture.” McLaren Vale

Lily’s Garden is the pick of the bunch from our growers McLaren Vale vineyards. Lily’s Garden is a generous wine with cascading blue fruits and a rich long palate.

The first vintage of Lily’s Garden was produced in 2000, as one of the first wines in our portfolio and was simply labelled ‘Two Hands McLaren Vale Shiraz’. Proprietor Michael Twelftree’s daughter Lily was born in 2001 and the wine was lovingly renamed ‘Lily’s Garden to complete the series with ‘Bella’s Garden’. It wasn’t long until Lily quickly gained a following among wine enthusiasts and critics, admired for it’s blueberry, blackberry and chocolatey flavours, and its ability to age gracefully. Over the years, the Lily’s Garden McLaren Vale Shiraz has continued to receive high ratings and critical acclaim, cementing its status as one of Two Hands’s top wines.

The label’s blue colour takes inspiration from McLaren Vale’s close proximity to the sea.

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THE REGION & VINEYARD
SOIL
A mix of maritime and sedimentary sand-based soil.
VINE AGE 16-61
ELEVATION 75-320m
AVERAGE RAINFALL 500-700mm
SUB-DISTRICT Blewitt Springs, Clarendon, McLaren Flat, McLaren Vale, Seaview, Tatachilla, Willunga Hills.

VINIFCATION
Fermentated in a five-ten tonne open top fermenter, with regular pump overs (2 times daily over entire ferment) to control ferment, extract colour, flavour and tannins.

Average time ‘on skins’ was 10 days before the dry free run was drained to tank and the pressings combined. The wine was then racked to barrel, where malolactic fermentation took place. Lily’s Garden is bottled unfined and unfiltered.


MATURATION
Aged for 18 months in 15% in new French oak hogshead. With the remainder in 1-6 year old French oak hogsheads.

SCORES & REVIEWS

ANGUS HUGHSON FOR WINEPILOT

“Deep crimson in colour and your classic crowd-pleasing McLaren Vale style thanks to its punchy, muscular fruits – blueberry, blackberry and chocolate jousting away well matched to sweet mocha oak. It then gets a bit more serious on the palate with a robust firm, structure well supported by rich blackberry and fruit pastille flavours through to a lengthy finish. Tannins are a little bit sinewy right now but with a couple of years this will be right in the slot” 93 points Read on HERE