Dowie Doole's Hooley Dooley Red is a delicious blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz. Rich crimson in colour with a beautiful bouquet of dark berries, liquorice and spices. The palate is long and flavoursome exhibiting blackcurrant and dark chocolate flavours complemented by spicy, vanillin oak. The tannins are fine, long and soft making it ideal for early drinking or short term maturation (3-5 years).
The Dowie Doole boys (Norm Doole and Drew Dowie) established their own McLaren Vale winery in the mid-nineties - enlisting the help of Leigh Gilligan along the way - having grown increasingly frustrated with watching their grapes being trucked...
South Australia straddles the centre of the Australian continent, and is the Australian wine industry’s ‘powerhouse’ State, producing most of Australia’s wine - from its cheapest to its most expensive - and boasting some of the oldest individual vines in the world. The old vines found in...
Cabernet Sauvignon is a well known grape variety used to great effect in Bordeaux, France where it is vitally important to the classic wines of the Médoc. Here it is blended alongside Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Merlot to produce truly world-class wines. Cabernet...
The name Syrah is derived from Shiraz (the grape name adopted by Australia) and is a black grape variety that makes dark, spicy red wines in many countries. The wines from this grape...
