Zonte’s Footstep Lake Doctor Shiraz is named after the house-cooling breeze of our ‘Lake Doctor’. These winds arrive from the Great Southern Ocean direct from Antarctica reviving our vines and vignerons alike in the peak of summer heat.
Drink with anything off the grill (preferably charcoal that is), and especially a second glass. Not just about the fruit, it’s earthy too and what we have always loved about Langhorne Creek is they produce cracker wines – consistently!
The result is a fabulously stylish Shiraz, one which offers Five Spice, juicy Plum Pudding flavour with rolling soft, fine-grained Cedar tannin.
91 Points – James Halliday 2019
”The mid-palate scrapes through by the skin of its teeth, but the finish is convincing and there’s a real sense of structural integrity to this. It feels sturdy. It tastes of blackcurrant, cloves, toast and gum leaves and while it takes time to built momentum and volume it gets there in the end.”
Zonte’s Footstep Lake Doctor Shiraz Awards & Accolades
Platinum Medal San Diego Wine & Spirits Competition 2018
Gold Medal Critics Challenge 2018
Gold Medal / Best Buy /Cellar Selection 2017 Tasting.com World Value Wine, Challenge – Top 10 Red wine $20 and under’ Best Value Australian Shiraz.
Gold Medal China Wine and Spirits Awards 2017
Gold Medal Tastings.com World Wine Championships 2017
90 Points – Tastings.com 02/09/2018
4 Stars Winestate Magazine – New Releases 2018
Gold Medal Wine Showcase Magazine ”Shiraz/VarietalTasting” April 2018 Edition
Gold Medal Wine Showcase Magazine ”Shiraz/VarietalTasting” April 2018 Edition
Gold Medal AWC Vienna
Zonte’s Footstep is a proudly independent Australian wine company. We take our vineyards and our wine, but not ourselves, seriously. Mr. Ben Riggs and Zar Brooks teamed together with a group of mates to launch Zonte’s Footstep from vintage 2003 and the wines are now at the vanguard of a revolution of Australian wine styles. Zonte’s Footstep is named after a 19th century Zante currant vineyard as new plantings follow the original footstep.
The currant business dried up, but Zonte’s Footstep became our blueprint… In 2003 we pooled old white utes and new-ish tractors to grow the best grapes from the best vineyards. All we want to do is taste our fruit in our wine, so we charged our reigning winemaker, Mr. Ben Riggs, with one goal; to make wine true to vineyard so long as it is a bloody good drink!
The truth is out there in the vineyard but the proof is in the bottle.
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