Tomfoolery Son of Gun Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2023 - Caravan Wines & Spirits

Tomfoolery

Tomfoolery Son of Gun Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2023

Style Wine Australia Red
Producer Tomfoolery
Origin Barossa Valley (eastern slopes)
$32 / btl
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What it tastes like.

This is a dedication to the favourite Barossa blend of the old guns, from their proud sons. The classic Barossa ‘Claret’ is the marrying of our region’s great varietals, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz. From an early age we learnt to appreciate and respect this traditional Barossa wine style as a true example of varietal harmony.

The fruit is handpicked at optimum ripeness and flavour profile ensuring overall balance before being gently destemmed to keep as many whole berries and then open fermented for a minimum of five days with the juice being pumped over the skins twice daily to maximize oxygenation and purity of fermentation. Once the wine is dry it is then gently basket pressed minimizing the extraction of harsh extractive tannins. Matured for 12 months in seasoned French oak barriques.

The house

About Tomfoolery.

Barossa Valley (eastern slopes) ·Est. 2004

Tomfoolery is a Barossa Valley estate founded in 2004 by brothers Ben and Toby Chipman with mate Troy Mortimer. Tasmanian-born Ben moved to the Barossa as a teenager, took a Wine Marketing degree at Adelaide, and trained for five years at Rockford under Robert O'Callaghan before launching Tomfoolery. Ben and his wife Sarah purchased the homestead and vineyard on the Barossa's eastern slopes in 2011 and built the estate winery in 2014. The wine names are deliberately playful; the winemaking pedigree is Rockford-school.

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  • Temperature

    16–18°C · cellar temperature, never warm

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Why Caravan backs Tomfoolery

Barossa Valley (eastern slopes)

Ben Chipman, Toby Chipman and Troy Mortimer founded Tomfoolery in 2004, registering a label rather than building a winery — a not-uncommon Barossa pattern for emerging producers in the 2000s, where the wines are made under a contract arrangement at an established Barossa winery while the brand finds its market. Ben Chipman is Tasmanian-born and moved to the Barossa as a teenager. He completed a Wine Marketing degree at Adelaide University, worked at Yalumba and Lou Miranda, then spent five years at Rockford Estate under Robert O'Callaghan — Rockford being the reference for old-school traditional Barossa Shiraz technique.

In 2011, Ben and his wife Sarah (also ex-Rockford, where the two met in 2006) bought an 1850s homestead and adjoining vineyard on the eastern slopes of the Barossa. The cellar door now operates from what was once Ben's parents' family home. The winery itself was built in 2014. The Chipman approach maps the Rockford technique forward: low-intervention winemaking with traditional fermentation methods, dry-grown old-vine fruit where available, and a bias toward big-shouldered Barossa Shiraz, Cabernet, Mataro and Grenache.

The Tomfoolery range carries playful names but classical Barossa structure: Black and Blue Shiraz (the headline Shiraz), Skullduggery Mataro Shiraz, Young Blood (multiple expressions: Shiraz, Grenache, Mataro Shiraz Grenache), Son of a Gun Cabernet Shiraz, Artful Dodger Shiraz, Monkey Business Cabernet Franc, Burla Negra Tempranillo, Trouble and Strife Rosé. White-side: Cut n Run Riesling, Fox Whistle Pinot Gris. The estate also makes Adelaide Hills excursions for Sauvignon Blanc and a Pinot Noir × Syrah blend (High Cotton).

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