TIM ADAMS WINES

Tim Adams 2008 Reserve Riesling

Riesling wines from Clare Valley are most enjoyable when young and zesty, or left to mature beyond five years of age. This wine has been sealed with Stelvin closure to ensure its freshness and authenticity and will cellar for 20 years in good conditions.

Use as an aperitif or with any seafood. Best with oysters — forget the lemon!

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Tim Adams 2008 Reserve Tempranillo

As the principal variety of the world-renowned wines of Rioja, tempranillo has long been the backbone of the Spanish red-wine industry. We discovered many years ago that drinking these wines from Rioja could be a wonderful experience and so decided to search for the appropriate site, soil and clone to plant in our vineyards at Watervale.

On an exploratory trip to Spain to meet the winemakers and taste wines in Rioja, Tim met Isaac Muga, who agreed to work with us in Clare for vintage 2004. In 2004, we planted 6.5 hectares of tempranillo on our Ladera vineyard in Clare.

This wine, from the 2008 vintage, was selected from individual barrels before blending and exhibits the definitive tempranillo characters of strawberry and cherry, in harmony with clove and cinnamon spice derived from 15 months aging in new and second-use French oak. The wine is spicy and savoury by Australian standards and is lower in alcohol than most red wines we make. It has been sealed under screwcap to ensure freshness and authenticity. The wine will develop to its full potential over the next 10 years.

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Tim Adams 2010 Riesling

The use of only the very best 500 litres per tonne of grapes has resulted in this wine being very intensely flavoured and aromatic. The wine has very lifted riesling character with citrus aromatics of lime, lemon and grapefruit. The palate is seamless with moderate viscosity and brisk acid finish. Use as an aperitif or with any seafood. Riesling wines from Clare Valley are most enjoyable when young and zesty, or left to mature beyond five years of age. This wine has been sealed with screwcaps to ensure its freshness and authenticity.

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Tim Adams 2009 Semillon

This aromatic wine has great balance and generous flavour typical of the variety grown in the Clare Valley. Fermentation in French oak has added complexity to the grassy and stonefruit characters of the semillon. It has diverse food compatibility – in particular with seafood and pasta. It may be cellared for a decade with confidence. This wine has been sealed with Stelvin capsules to retain its freshness and authenticity.

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Tim Adams 2010 Pinot Gris

The 2010 Pinot Gris has a distinctive rose gold hue. The pinkish coloration is a natural phenomenon of pinot gris. Being a mutation of pinot noir, there is a small degree of pink pigmentation in the skin of pinot gris. This can be either avoided or removed using various techniques in the winemaking process. This year we included all the pressings wine (which carries the majority of the pink colour) in our blend, because it made such a positive contribution to the structure of the wine.

The result is a wine with pear, lychee and peach flavours complemented by fullness, some sweetness in the middle palate and cleansing acidity. The wine has great balance of flavour, alcohol, sweetness and acidity. It should be enjoyed while it is young and vibrant. Enjoy it with Asian cuisine, seafood and salads or keep with confidence for up to five years.

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Tim Adams 2010 Botrytis Affected Riesling

This wine is very sweet, with pronounced botrytis characters in harmony with riesling citrus and floral characters. We find the wine delicious with fresh fruit desserts and full-flavoured cheeses. The wine will continue to improve in the bottle for a period of at least 10 years. Sealed under screwcap to ensure freshness and authenticity.

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Tim Adams 2007 The Fergus

Our fifteenth release of The Fergus is named after our neighbour who was good enough to sell us his grenache grapes in the vintage of 1993, during a desperate shortage of shiraz and cabernet. We quickly realized that a wine born from logistics had real potential as a full-bodied, but soft style with immediate food compatibility. The wine has lifted red berry aromas and flavours, complexed by grenache spiciness and given extra back palate astringency by the blending of other more tannic red varieties. It is a mouth-filling wine that may be kept for up to 10 years, but will go nicely with duck, turkey, lamb and gamey meats any time soon.

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Tim Adams 2006 Cabernet Malbec

Cabernet sauvignon has long been recognized as an excellent variety in our district. The addition of malbec adds to the complexity of the palate. Twenty-four months in French oak provides spice and balance to this style, which is dominated by violet, fresh blackcurrant and oak aromas and flavours. This wine is full-bodied and has not been cold stabilized, so a harmless crust may form with time. Cellaring potential is at least 10 years in good conditions. The wine has been sealed with screwcaps to ensure freshness and authenticity.

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Tim Adams 2007 Shiraz

This blend of local vineyards, including Aberfeldy, has produced a wine with both regional and varietal definition. The wine has bright magenta colour, and aromas and flavours of red-berry conserve, spiciness and the complexity given by 18 months American-oak maturation. The palate is full and soft in front and middle, with flavour of small berry fruit and again the oak complimenting the fruit. The finish is medium firm with tannins coming from both fruit and oak. The wine has not been cold stabilized and so may form a harmless crystalline deposit in the bottle necessitating decanting before serving. This wine has power and finesse which makes it both approachable now and worth keeping for up to 10 years in good conditions.

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Tim Adams 2008 The Aberfeldy Shiraz

The Aberfeldy vineyard is a unique site — friable red loam over limestone nestled at the bottom of the easternmost hills of the Clare Valley, just five kilometres south-east of the township of Clare. When the Birks family of Wendouree fame settled the area they planted this site with shiraz in 1904. Many of these vines remain and those which have perished have been replaced with rootlings of the same clones. The cropping level in the vineyard is never more than 1.5 tonnes per acre, producing grapes with intense colour, flavour and tannins. This fruit is the backbone of The Aberfeldy Shiraz.

The wine has vibrant magenta colour with aromatics of cherry, plum, dark berries and chocolate, complemented by the oak-derived characters of clove, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla. The palate is full bodied with dark berry conserve flavours and balanced oak, tannin and acidity. The wine has persistent sweet fruit and oak aftertaste, with power and great finesse, and will reward patient cellaring. The wine has been sealed with screwcaps in bottle and magnum to ensure freshness and authenticity.

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Tim Adams 20-Year-Old Fine Old Tawny Port

We have modelled this wine along the lines of the very best of Portugal’s tawny ports. Hence it has only about 4º Baumé of sweetness rather than the 6º Baumé of sweetness shown by most Australian tawny styles. The oldest component of the blend dates from 1988. Because of the financial constraints imposed by maturing wine for as long as we do, most Australian ports lack the complexity of this wine. We hope you enjoy the fruits of our long term efforts.

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