Shut the Gate Single Site Barbera 2021 - Caravan Wines & Spirits

Shut the Gate

Shut the Gate Single Site Barbera 2021

Style Wine Australia Red
Producer Shut the Gate
Origin Clare Valley (Watervale)
$25 / btl
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What it tastes like.

Distinctive rosemary, thyme and rosemary aromas with blue fruits and savoury tannins.

This wine offers up very intense aromas of fresh red & black berries with a distinctive regional dried herb scent. Aromas of fresh picked basil, thyme & rosemary. On the palate, some rosemary & thyme continues the theme, with black cherries, sweet blueberry & hints of vanilla oak notes. 

The house

About Shut the Gate.

Clare Valley (Watervale) ·Est. 2007

Shut the Gate Wines was founded in 2007 in the Clare Valley by Richard Woods and Rasa Fabian, after both spent years in commercial wine roles before launching their own venture. The cellar door operates from a historic cottage at the entrance to Watervale village. The wine focus is Clare Valley Riesling — single-vineyard expressions from Watervale and Polish Hill River — alongside Italian-varietal experiments (Fiano, Gewürztraminer, Sangiovese, Negroamaro, Barbera) and small-batch Grenache and Shiraz.

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How to pour it.

  • Temperature

    16–18°C · cellar temperature, never warm

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Keep it somewhere cool, dark, and steady. Wine prefers cellar temperature; spirits are happier away from heat and direct sunlight.

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Why Caravan backs Shut the Gate

Clare Valley (Watervale)

Richard Woods and Rasa Fabian founded Shut the Gate in 2007 after both spent years in commercial wine industry roles. The pair purchased a small Clare Valley vineyard and a 100-tonne contract winery, and spent five years relaunching that earlier label before establishing Shut the Gate as their own brand. The Watervale cottage that now serves as cellar door sits at the entrance to the Watervale village in the southern Clare Valley.

The Clare Valley's Watervale and Polish Hill River subregions are the spine of the Shut the Gate Riesling line — Watervale produces softer fruit-forward wines and Polish Hill the more austere mineral expressions. The For Love Watervale Riesling won Adelaide Review's Hot 100 Wines in 2019. Beyond Riesling, the house experiments with Italian and Mediterranean varieties (Fiano, Gewürztraminer, Sangiovese, Negroamaro, Barbera) alongside the standard South Australian Grenache and Shiraz.

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