• Lowe Wine Range
  • 2009 Lowe Zinfandel
  • 2006 Lowe Reserve Merlot
  • 2006 Lowe Merlot
  • 2006 Lowe Reserve Shiraz
  • 2007 Lowe Shiraz
  • 2005 Lowe Vintage Port
• Louee Wine Range
• Tinja Wine Range
• museum wines

2009 Lowe Zinfandel

Dark ruby in colour, plum cake, liquorice and prune bouquet with a viscous, soft, lingering finish on the palate. Like all my Zinfandels, this is great drinking now, better in 2015.

Vineyard

Mudgee (500m)

Vintage

A textbook season with a mild spring and good rainfall, then a benign, dry summer. Following the drought from 2002 onwards, this was a godsend. We crop-thinned the unripe fruit twice in the vineyard which helped produce outstanding fruit.

Vinification

Fermented in an open vat using natural yeast with an elevated temperature of ferment to 30oc, then matured in American oak cask for 20 months.

Analysis

Alcohol 15.3 %, pH 3.59, TA 6.97g/l, Sugar <2g/l

Awards

• NSW Department of Primary Industries Award for Best Organic Wine’, NSW Wine Awards 2011
• Gil Walhquist Trophy for the Best Wine of the Show', Australia/New Zealand Organic Wine Show 2011
• Trophy, 'Best Red Wine of the Show', Australia/New Zealand Organic Wine Show 2011
• Gold Medal,  Australia/New Zealand Organic Wine Show 2011
• Top 40, NSW Wine Awards 2011 

Reviews

Eat & Drink, http://www.eatanddrink.com.au, November 2011
"It's been three vintages since the previous LOWE Zin (2006) but the 2009 makes it worth the wait. Dry-grown bush vines have struggled in the last two difficult vintages but have held enough in reserve to produce rish raspberry fruitiness with hints of rose, tar, liquorice and leather - all hallmarks of fine zinfandel. Richly textured, the 15.3% alcohol is completely integrated with the fine, dusty tannins a balance for the sweet fruit character. 5 STAR"