Heirloom Barossa Shiraz 2023

Strikingly black-red and violet in colour. Aromas of grated dark chocolate and a dusting of cocoa; Christmas Cake or rather pudding. Red and dark berries at the late Summer end of the spectrum. It is the interplay between the dark fruit perfume (blackberries, blueberries and mulberries) and the heightened aromatics of plum, prune and fresh herbs that make the wine so enticing. A persistent line of spice and an enduring acid tension. Super concentrated dark berry fruit flavours roll in tightly coiled spoils of rushing taste and texture. Green herbs and forest floor in the background, then it rolls and rolls again before yet another wave of fruit flavour. It seems both at once a rounded and warm red wine, but then a taut and clean one.