Two Hands Bella's Garden Shiraz 2019
This Shiraz has intense flavours of strawberry, black plum, blackberry, stewed black plum, chocolate and cacao.
Region: South Australia · Type: Red · Vintage: 2019 · Producer: Two Hands · Grape: Syrah
Tasted 2025-02-22
In the glass
The colour is deep ruby. The wine is developing and dry, with medium-plus acidity and body, high alcohol and high tannin. The flavour intensity is pronounced and the finish is long. I rate it very good quality: it can be drunk now, but it has the potential to age. In another assessment, the flavour intensity was put at medium-plus, with black cherry, black plum, dried black plum, blueberry, violet and liquorice, then vanilla, toast, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon as secondary notes, and blueberry jam, dried blueberry, tobacco and leather as tertiary ones. That assessment also found it developing and dry, with medium-plus acidity and tannin, high alcohol, and medium-plus body, flavour intensity and finish, and likewise judged it very good quality, ready to drink now with the potential to age. It was added that with Shiraz, the deciding question is whether the acidity holds the wine up.
Producer
Two Hands Wines was established in September 1999 by Michael Twelftree and Richard Mintz, who agreed at a friend's engagement party to make wine themselves and sell it around the world. A small amount the two made for fun began to win a following by word of mouth at nearby wine bars. At a time when much Australian wine was sold under multi-region labels in a formulaic style, the aim was to showcase the diversity of Australian Shiraz through the character of its regions and vineyards. The estate is among the certified members of Sustainable Winegrowing Australia.
Site
The wine comes from the Barossa Valley in South Australia.
Vinification
Across the estate, every parcel of fruit, however small, is handled separately. The estate's Shiraz wines are aged in French oak for 12 to 24 months, depending on the grade each wine is classified for.