Summer Wine Guide 2023

2021 Kay Brothers Hillside Shiraz

G 94

Medium-deep crimson. Liquorice, ferruginous, dark cherry, marzipan with herb garden notes. Fresh minerally wine with lovely redcurrant dark cherry fruits, fine supple and vigorous tannins, underlying savoury notes and attractive inky complexity, Delicious drinking. Now–2028 2021 Coriole Vineyards Pettigala Single Vineyard Shiraz G 94 Deep colour. Intense choco-berry aromas with marzipan notes. Well concentrated and smooth with ample dark berry dark chocolate flavours, fine bittersweet textures and well integrated acidity. Finishes minerally with graphite notes, Attractive minerally wine with some ferruginous notes. Now–2030 2020 Salomon Estate Finniss River Sea Eagle Vineyard Shiraz G 94 Deep crimson. Intense dark cherry, blackberry, hint bush garrigue, with roasted chestnut, marzipan, vanilla notes. Concentrated pure dark cherry, blackberry, raspberry fruits, fine loose-knit chalky tannins and well integrated mineral acidity. Finishes long with sweet red liquorice notes. Now–2028 2022 Schwarz Wine Co. Meta Shiraz G 94 Medium-deep crimson. Lovely ripe blackberry, dark chocolate aromas with chinotto notes. Voluminous and generous with ample dark berry, dark chocolate flavours, find velvety textures and underlying roasted walnut notes. Finished chocolaty with mineral notes. Bittersweet wine with plush fruit and fresh acidity. Now–2028 2021 Seppeltsfield The Northing Shiraz G 94 Deep crimson. Intense dark chocolate, dark berry aromas with touch of black olive. Richly flavoured choco-berry flavours, slinky textures, very attractive mid-palate volume and underlying cedar oak. Finishes claret firm with liquorice notes. Lovely vim, volume and vigour. From the Katingi Vineyard. 14 months in French oak hogsheads. Now–2030 2021 Chapel Hill ‘The MV’ Shiraz G 94 Medium-deep crimson. Fresh blackberry, choco-mint aromas with graphite/ferruginous notes. Inky deep blackberry, dark cherry, praline, hint mint/sage flavours, fine loose-knit chocolaty tannins, attractive mid-palate density and fresh long mineral acidity. Chewy finish with seductive sweet fruits. Now–2030

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