Billi Billi Shiraz
| Winery | Mount Langi Ghiran |
| Appellation | Victoria |
| Wine Style | Full Bodied Red Wine |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Bottle Closure | Stelvin Cap |
| Viticulture | Conventional |
| Alcohol by Volume | 13% |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Ageing Potential from Vintage | < 5 Years |
| Ageing | Old Oak Barrel |
Tasting notes
Full-bodied powerful red wine with a deep cherry colour and colourful tears. Nose bursts open full of ripe and juicy fruit of cassis and meat cherries, over black plums and blackberries, as well as black pepper and wood violets. Clenched taste onset, but so ripe that it is immediately ready to drink with a balanced texture and ripe tannins, long black berry aftertaste with outback bush in the finale. Dreamed partner at the green egg or the outdoor barbecue, fits perfectly with grilled beef and lasciviously garnished hamburgers with roasted onion and confit of beef tomatoes, as well as with grilled soft peppers with mushrooms and fresh white mould cheeses. Serving temperature: 15°C.
Wine Story
Established in 1969, now home to one of Australia’s most iconic cool climate wines, Langi Shiraz. Mount Langi Ghiran – Aboriginal for home of the yellow tailed black cockatoo – is set amongst the dramatic backdrop of the Great Dividing Range in the Grampians region of Victoria, producing iconic cool climate wines. The first vines were planted on the property in the late 1800s at the site which is now our ‘Contour Block’, but it’s when the Fratin family replanted in 1969 that Mount Langi Ghiran really came to be.
The Fratin brothers: Don, Lino and Serge, an Italian immigrant family had a dream of creating a little piece of Veneto here in Australia. In planting their first vines, they created the iconic “Langi” Old Block Shiraz. The brothers continued planting vines adding Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Not satisfied with just grapes, they planted chestnuts, walnuts, hazelnuts and some fruit trees. The cellar they built into the side of the hill was a feast for the senses, the rafters sagging with salami and other smallgoods while stillage racks held the new vintage in barrels.
After some early winemaking success, the Fratins had a misfire with their 1980 vintage and decided they needed the services of a consultant. They were fortunate to have at their doorstep one of the best available at the time, Trevor Mast. Talented and charismatic; he was the right man in the right place.
6 years later, Trevor and his wife Sandra purchased Mount Langi Ghiran with Ian Menzies. A turning point for Mount Langi Ghiran, Trevor had a vision for a cool climate Shiraz before cool climate was in vogue and so the iconic Langi Shiraz was just around the corner.