Top 10 award-winning eco-friendly wines from the Organic Masters 2020
25th June, 2020
by
Patrick Schmitt
1. Kalleske Eduard
- Producer: Kalleske
- Region: Barossa
- Country: Australia
- Grape variety: Shiraz
- Abv: 14.5%
- Vintage: 2017
- Closure: Screwcap
- Approx. retail price: £50+
- Medal: Master – Organic Wine Masters 2020
The highest scoring wine in the entire Organic Masters tasting this year turned out to be for a top red from Australia’s Kalleske, called Eduard. Named after the Barossa producer’s founder, Karl Heinrich ‘Eduard’ Kalleske, it uses Shiraz from a historic vineyard, first planted in 1905, ensuring it is a wine of great concentration but balance too. The result is seriously impressive, with layers of flavour from blackcurrant to ripe plum, a touch of prune, sweet balsamic and black pepper, along with dried mint and fleshy cherry, supported by grippy tannins, to give a dry finish, that also features lingering roasted coffee and vanilla pod flavours from the barrel-ageing process. It’s a remarkable wine that’s both big and beautiful.